I love this concept. I will now think of five-minute lessons to give my daughter. I think she’ll go for it because it’s only five minutes. But of course, I'll make the lessons fun.
"You got another minute"? Hilarious, yet painful. Even in the age of engaged learning and the flipped classroom, I think Father Guido has a point. If you take a transactional approach to learning, you'll forget it all. No doubt.
Here is one of my soapboxes (you're welcome) about a jobs-based curriculum. You spend the equivalent of a home mortgage on four years of education that qualifies you for an entry-level job. Then, if all your education has given you is job skills, it is rendered obsolete when you take the next job. Because the first job will have qualified you for the next one. What you should want from an education is something lifelong. And here's where I'll argue collegially with your premise. To get that five-minute understanding of anything, you typically have to digest a fair bit of material. There's really no shortcut, in literature, to reading the damn book. It's not unlike the 40 gallons of sap required to produce a single gallon of maple syrup.
Thanks for your comment, Josh. Well, TBH I think Father Guido is working on a false premise. If you forget nearly everything, then logically all you'd remember from a five minute course is five seconds'-worth or something. I agree completely with your comments. In fact, I was going to write an artiocle at some point about the insanity of people who say at conferences, often in the same breath, "Most of the jobs the kids will be doing once they've left school don't actually exist now, so we have to educate them for the future by making sure they can do computer programming." Eh? I have always thought, and now with ChatGPT have been vindicated, that by the time the kids graduate nobody will need to know how to program a computer, except of course for a few people who will need to be able to correct it when (WHEN) i goes pear-shaped or to question its in-built biases.
My eldest said the other day when he and I were walking the dog together that history was his least favorite subject, and he said, "Because they give us too little time in class to study it." I had to retrieve my jaw off the sidewalk. When I got clarity on what he meant though, it made more sense. History class means homework because they don't give him time to finish assignments during independent study. Proud Papa moment soars, then crashes back to land.
The best things really do come in small packages, don't they? 🏆
You wouldn't say that if you'd been used as a trampoline by two kittens
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I love this concept. I will now think of five-minute lessons to give my daughter. I think she’ll go for it because it’s only five minutes. But of course, I'll make the lessons fun.
"You got another minute"? Hilarious, yet painful. Even in the age of engaged learning and the flipped classroom, I think Father Guido has a point. If you take a transactional approach to learning, you'll forget it all. No doubt.
Here is one of my soapboxes (you're welcome) about a jobs-based curriculum. You spend the equivalent of a home mortgage on four years of education that qualifies you for an entry-level job. Then, if all your education has given you is job skills, it is rendered obsolete when you take the next job. Because the first job will have qualified you for the next one. What you should want from an education is something lifelong. And here's where I'll argue collegially with your premise. To get that five-minute understanding of anything, you typically have to digest a fair bit of material. There's really no shortcut, in literature, to reading the damn book. It's not unlike the 40 gallons of sap required to produce a single gallon of maple syrup.
Thanks for your comment, Josh. Well, TBH I think Father Guido is working on a false premise. If you forget nearly everything, then logically all you'd remember from a five minute course is five seconds'-worth or something. I agree completely with your comments. In fact, I was going to write an artiocle at some point about the insanity of people who say at conferences, often in the same breath, "Most of the jobs the kids will be doing once they've left school don't actually exist now, so we have to educate them for the future by making sure they can do computer programming." Eh? I have always thought, and now with ChatGPT have been vindicated, that by the time the kids graduate nobody will need to know how to program a computer, except of course for a few people who will need to be able to correct it when (WHEN) i goes pear-shaped or to question its in-built biases.
My eldest said the other day when he and I were walking the dog together that history was his least favorite subject, and he said, "Because they give us too little time in class to study it." I had to retrieve my jaw off the sidewalk. When I got clarity on what he meant though, it made more sense. History class means homework because they don't give him time to finish assignments during independent study. Proud Papa moment soars, then crashes back to land.
Oof. Crash landing indeed.
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😂 well put, Jack!