How could our Education system be Better?

CrazyNeutrino said:

How could our Education system be Better?

Abolish the state governments.

dv said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

How could our Education system be Better?

Abolish the state governments.

How would that improve the education system?

Certainly one way to save money, which could go into the education system

dv said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

How could our Education system be Better?

Abolish the state governments.

I reckon living in QLD for most of your life has biased you against state governments. They’re not all bad.

There I’ve said it…

dv said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

How could our Education system be Better?

Abolish the state governments.

Now, now, lets not be hasty.

What about waiting 4 years or so.

• sibeen’s elder sprog will have finished at McRob then.

institutionalised homosexuality like the Spartans

CrazyNeutrino said:

How could our Education system be Better?

get rid of school zoning

bring back the cane

abolish compulsory to yr 12 study

In whatever league table of comparisons in which we are losing positions, copy what the leader is doing.

Increase teacher pay to $120000 p.a. to attract the best people, sack anyone who underperforms.

dv said:

Increase teacher pay to $120000 p.a. to attract the best people, sack anyone who underperforms.

also make the uni course score more than minimum entrance

AwesomeO said:

In whatever league table of comparisons in which we are losing positions, copy what the leader is doing.

…but we haven’t got that many teachers of Finnish.

Arts said:

dv said:

Increase teacher pay to $120000 p.a. to attract the best people, sack anyone who underperforms.

also make the uni course score more than minimum entrance

Minimum uni score, 120k and school hours. Count me in.

let robots teach the children – it’s cheaper and standardises the course material

the dinner ladies would roam the corridors honing in on children’s laughter and give them a good whipping from a bamboo stick

the whole school would be overseen by an Alsatian watching all the classes via CCTV, anyone wandering around from their desk would be bitten

allow subjects like science to actually do science experiments

robots teaching would be better, they can do all the lessons morning , noon and night

no breaks

robots would be far more useful

with robots each child’s learning needs would be tailored perfectly to allow them to succeed

wookiemeister said:

robots teaching would be better, they can do all the lessons morning , noon and night

no breaks

robots would be far more useful

Drone robot teachers obviously.

wookiemeister said:

robots teaching would be better, they can do all the lessons morning , noon and night

no breaks

robots would be far more useful

students are not robots

Arts said:

wookiemeister said:

robots teaching would be better, they can do all the lessons morning , noon and night

no breaks

robots would be far more useful

students are not robots

Indeed, you can’t thrash till it bleeds a robot.

AwesomeO said:

wookiemeister said:

robots teaching would be better, they can do all the lessons morning , noon and night

no breaks

robots would be far more useful

Drone robot teachers obviously.

it makes perfect sense

you could combine all of the methods of the best teachers and load them into the drone

if the child doesn’t get one method it can try another

each child will receive their own robot teacher

the robot can measure heart rate from just looking at the skin ( your skin reddens with the pulse)

the robot can sense if you are ill and pre empt a crisis perhaps ?

the child might customise their teaching robot so they recognise them

they act as a guide and a guardian

wookiemeister said:

the child might customise their teaching robot so they recognise them

they act as a guide and a guardian

oh… you mean… like a parent?

do away with schools and just have a teaching robot in each home

the robot looks after the child during the day

of course by then we will all be living in giant white ping pong ball houses floating around the sky

no one will have any fixed address

all the housing estates will be bull dozed back into the earth and the tower blocks sent crashing to the ground

humans will ride the currents of the upper atmosphere gazing down to earth like gods

CrazyNeutrino said:

How could our Education system be Better?

First of all establish what are the problems, using some real world data.

wookiemeister said:

all the housing estates will be bull dozed back into the earth and the tower blocks sent crashing to the ground

humans will ride the currents of the upper atmosphere gazing down to earth like gods

Sounds like you have been smoking real good shit, where can I get some too please.

Fmd speaking of drone

let me

SCIENCE said:

let me

Entertain you

CrazyNeutrino said:

How could our Education system be Better?

It could start with lessons in appropriate use of capital letters in sentences.

In seriousness though, I think that the best thing we could do is to teach our children to think critically about problems and to provide more content related to health and well being.

diddly-squat said:

In seriousness though, I think that the best thing we could do is to teach our children to think critically about problems

Yes, some of the children here could certainly do with education in that area.

Educate them that they are just a teeny tiny cog in a vast unfathomable machine

Cymek said:

Educate them that they are just a teeny tiny cog in a vast unfathomable machine

and that nothing they ever do will change that…

BTW, I watched TWD last night…

go carol

Recent article about setting the bar low.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/hsc-2015-board-of-studies-proposes-first-extension-science-units-as-students-sit-hsc-20151018-gkc9md.html

You wonder how many students will take that subject.

Edumacation, if you can’t spell it rite wat hope iz there?

Get rid of NAPLAN. All it tests is how well the school prepares students for NAPLAN.

Get rid of the national curriculum. I thought it was a great idea to begin with. Instead it has turned teachers into Wookie’s robot teachers who are unable to move around within a subject or be able to deliver it in an engaging manner. When my son comes home telling me they they’re studying convicts and must look at the story of individual X when he has seven convict ancestors with amazing stories to choose from to learn about, it’s poor form indeed.

Get rid of cursive writing. It’s pointless. In fact stop handwriting being a focal point. In Queensland, the kids have to write in “Queensland script”. Having handwriting that’s legible and neat is entirely adequate and kids cold spend more time learning useful stuff.

Get rid of homework for primary school kids. It’s pointless and evidence shows it does not improve academic performance.

CrazyNeutrino said:

How could our Education system be Better?

I’m sure I answered this a year or so ago (TIC).

The first thing that comes to mind is updating the science equipment to reflect changes in how science is carried out. eg. chromatography, DNA analysis, particle accelerator, spectroscopy, surface treatment, nanotubes, space science.

Children are still taught physics that was proved wrong 110 years ago, such as Rutherford’s plum pudding model of the atom. Children in school are still taught chemistry techniques invented 160 years ago and long since superseded.

Update it.

Can you imagine …
… if the education system updated its science syllabus as often as Microsoft updates its software?

The other points seem valid, but one thing.

/* Get rid of NAPLAN. All it tests is how well the school prepares students for NAPLAN. */

Same as any other test, really.

Except that the other tests don’t involve the exclusion of all other course material for weeks before testing. The kids are drilled on how to achieve the best performance on NAPLAN at the expense of subjects that aren’t covered.

It’s got to the point where you can now purchase preparation books full of exercises. The pressure to perform that is put on primary school kids is unbelievable.There are a number of parents out there who don’t understand the purpose of standardised testing and push their kids even harder.

We got a new principal last year who thankfully recognises the utter stupidity of this approach. He’s less concerned about how his school compares with others and more interested in happy kids who want to learn. The difference in the attitude of the kids in noticeable.

Fair shot. I’ll look into it.

children need to be given a project to help them focus and home their thoughts, building a large pyramid could achieve this

wookiemeister said:

children need to be given a project to help them focus and home their thoughts, building a large pyramid could achieve this

What’s with the freakin’ Pyramids? Are you going all Daoist or something?

Witty Rejoinder said:

wookiemeister said:

children need to be given a project to help them focus and home their thoughts, building a large pyramid could achieve this

What’s with the freakin’ Pyramids? Are you going all Daoist or something?

Feed their bellies, empty their minds?