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EDU 290 Conference notes

15 February 2024

Keynote Conference

How to escape education's death valley | Sir Ken Robinson | TED


● No Child Left Behind is leaving children behind
○ 60% of kids drop out of high school
○ 80% of native american kids drop out
○ It would be costly to fix this, but in the end, help the economy
● Children are disengaged and not benefiting from school
● Current Education tries to make everyone the same, not diverse learning
(conformity)
○ The spectrum is narrow for achievement
○ STEM is the main focus
■ There needs to be a balance between the arts, physical
education, humanities, and STEM
○ ADHD
■ Kids are sitting doing low-grade clerical work, they are going to
fidget
■ Kids excel when they are engaged across a board
○ Curiosity makes children flourish
■ Engine of achievement
■ Teachers mentor, stimulate, provoke, and engage
○ Education is about learning
■ No learning = no education
● Task vs achievement
○ You can be engaged without achieving
■ Dieting without losing weight
● Testing is a culture of education, it shouldn't be
○ Should help to learn not obstruct, diagnostic
○ In place of curiosity, we have compliance
■ Encouraged to follow routine algorithms rather than excite
imagination & curiosity
● Human life is creative
○ We create and recreate our lives, all have different resumes
○ Culture is diverse and dynamic
○ Instead, we have standardization
● We do not individualize learning
○ Recognize creativity
○ High status of teachers, constant PD
○ School level to get the job done
○ Remove the discretion of teachers, it stops working
● Failed Mechanics of Education
○ Improved by data
○ It is a human system not industrial
○ Found boring, and irrelevant.
● Alternate education system
○ If we all focused on students' needs and bettering teachers we
wouldn't need an “alternative” system

Conference 1

Ali Carr-Chellman: Gaming to re-engage boys in learning


● There are programs for women in mathematics, science
○ We need programs for boys too
○ 70% ish population of women in universities
○ Men's centers and studies to engage boys
● The boys are out of sync
○ Zero tolerance
■ No toy guns
■ No violent writing
○ Fewer male teachers
■ 93% of teachers in elementary are women
■ Male leaders in the school are important for boys
■ Boys feel like they don't belong due to lack of male presence
○ Kindergarten is the old second-grade
■ The standards of these young ages are too high
■ By first grade reading paragraphs of text, if not, leads to reading
programs 45 boys for every 1 girl in the programs.
● Put ourselves into boy culture
○ Design better education games to engage
○ More men in the classroom
○ Do zero-tolerance policies make sense?

Conference 2

Mitch Resnick: Let's teach kids to code

● Young people have experience using new technology but are not fluent.
○ Creating and expressing new technologies
○ Learn the importance of coding
● Code programs
○ Codecademy
○ Code dojo
● Coding doesn't need to be hard
○ Coding is seen as those who have a strong mathematical and technical
background
○ It can be moving small blocks to create & express
○ Games can combine physical and virtual world
○ Scratch uses a webcam and microphone to play game
● Coding opportunities
○ Opens opportunities to learn
○ Learn to code, code to learn
○ Meaningful context to things that are regularly taught in school
■ Variables
● Learning to add a score to a game

Response

For the keynote conference with Sir Ken Robinson, an important part of what he
talked about was the disengagement of students. The education system makes
students conform rather than explore curiosity and creativity. I agree with
Robinson, as children learn the most when they are curious and engaged. Robinson
also talks about how the education system needs balance with the STEM classes
and humanities, arts, and physical education. While these are all classes that most
schools have, they tend to be seen as electives or extracurriculars, when they
should be just as important as math, science, or English classes. I personally found
more enjoyment and learning from my elective classes in school than math or
English. They made me feel a sense of accomplishment and let me explore curiosity
and creativity. While elective classes as a whole are technically required, they
should be taken more seriously and become a crucial part of the curriculum as they
boost engagement of all ages. I also agree that standardized testing has gotten out
of control. It is seen as an end-all, and if you do not pass these tests then you are
seen as not smart enough when these tests should be a guidance to see what
students need help on and provide guidance. In Ali Carr-Chellman’s Ted Talk on
“Gaming to Re-engage Boys in Learning,” she talks about how the education system
has become targeted to girls and discourages boys from learning. She talked about
different statistics on how for every 100 girls being suspended, expelled, in special
education programs, etc., there is an extremely high amount of boys in these
categories. I found it important that we look into what interests boys, which for
most is video games, and incorporate these into classrooms so that they feel that
school isn’t just for boys. In Mitch Resnick’s Ted Talk on “Let’s Teach Kids to Code,”
he talks about how coding isn’t just for computer scientists, and those with strong
mathematical and technical backgrounds. One thing that stuck out to me was when
he said that learning to code leads to coding to learn. He shared a story where a
child was trying to add a scoring system to a game they made, and he was taught
about variables. This is just one example of something that is taught already in
school but puts meaning to it that engages learners in a different way.

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