[YouTube is allowing videos longer than 15 minutes now which is why I'm uploading this video again, but it's in one piece this time.]
Are schools designed to help people learn? Are colleges and universities really institutions of higher education? Do students actually learn any science in science classes? Can skateboarding give us a better model for teaching and learning? Watch this video to find out.
My website
http://DrTae.org
For more details about this video, read my blog entry about "Building A New Culture Of Teaching And Learning"
http://drtae.org/building-a-new-culture-of-teaching-and-learning/
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"School Sucks"
If you've never seen Sir Ken Robinson's TED Talk "Do Schools Kill Creativity?" you should watch it here:
http://ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
1:22
"Universities are not doing a good job."
Watch the entire interview with Dr. Leon Lederman on The Science Network.
Education, Politics, Einstein, and Charm: a conversation with Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman.
http://thesciencenetwork.org/programs/the-science-studio/robert
3:02
Depersonalization 101: "They're...checking Facebook or their email..."
Is the digital revolution turning us into delusional multitaskers who can't focus?
Watch "Digital Nation" from Frontline on PBS
http://pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/view/
4:37
"Increasing number of educators found to be suffering from teaching disabilities"
The Onion
http://theonion.com/content/news/report_increasing_number_of
5:45
"Over 90% of middle school science teachers in this country have never taken a science course outside of high school."
Watch the entire discussion between Dr. Lawrence Krauss and Dr. Richard Dawkins:
http://richarddawkins.net/article,2472,Richard-Dawkins-and-Lawrence-Krauss,RichardDawkinsnet
7:05
"...the difference between certifications and qualifications."
Malcolm Gladwell has argued that if we don't have a good way of predicting who will become great teachers, we must drastically change hiring practices in schools.
"Most Likely To Succeed: How do we hire when we can't tell who's right for the job?"
http://newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12/15/081215fa_fact_gladwell
9:30
"...the most effective thing we can do to improve the quality of physics instruction...is to hire, honor, and promote good teachers."
Dr. David J. Griffiths ( academic.reed.edu/physics/faculty/griffiths.html )
"Is There A Text In This Class?"
http://ajp.aapt.org/resource/1/ajpias/v65/i12/p1141_s1
10:00
"Do they just sit there?"
Dr. Dean Zollman ( phys.ksu.edu/personal/dzollman/ )
"Do They Just Sit There? Reflections on helping students learn physics"
http://web.phys.ksu.edu/papers/millikan.html
11:41
"Congratulations! You haven't learned a damn thing about science."
Watch Richard Feynman for a more insightful view of science.
"The Pleasure of Finding Things Out"
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7136440703094429927
13:23
"Maybe lawyers are getting in the way of science education."
Watch Geyver Tulley's TED Talks about
"Five Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do"
http://ted.com/talks/gever_tulley_on_5_dangerous_things_for_kids.html
"Life Lessons Through Tinkering"
http://ted.com/talks/gever_tulley_s_tinkering_school_in_action.html
16:40
"Work your ass off until you figure it out."
Dr. Carol Dweck might call this having a "growth mindset."
"How Not To Talk To Your Kids"
http://nymag.com/news/features/27840/
Mindset by Dweck
http://mindsetonline.com/
Branford Marsalis thinks some students don't understand the idea of hard work.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5rz2jRHA9fo
"Making The Grade: Many students wheedle for a degree as if it were a freebie T shirt"
http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~mleach/myturn/makingthegrade.html
17:32
"That's a long time"
Outliers
by Malcolm Gladwell
http://gladwell.com/outliers/index.html
Dr. Alan Schoenfeld
http://gse.berkeley.edu/faculty/ahschoenfeld/ahschoenfeld.html
22:40
"Teach For America Chews Up, Spits Out Another Ethnic-Studies Major"
The Onion
http://theonion.com/content/node/30911
23:03
"You can polish a turd."
MythBusters: Polishing A Turd
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-polishing-a-turd.html
24:35
Distributed Computing on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing
SETI@home
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
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Richard Feynman's Life and Skepticismby nontheistful4,851 views
Hey Dr Tae, Im a senior in highschool this year. Iv been skating for 4 years and have always liked science. I took physics this last year and it was by far my favorite class iv ever taken. I really want to become a teacher in the long run. This video is huge motivation for me and in years from now if i ever end up being a highschool physics teacher on the first day of school im going to show my class this video
almostskater815 5 months ago in playlist almostskater815's Favorited Videos
I've had the same experience. All through high-school I loved science, but didn't do well because I didn't believe in memorizing stuff, when the main problem is understanding the processes. Somehow I made it to medical school: the same thing. Somehow I got to be a pathologist... things changed. Now I have a private lab, and I do all sorts of experiments and weird, after I get my job done. My team and I have managed to develop a cell fixative solution and tons of products.
ralvaradoanchisi 8 months ago
...forever to teach just a little bit, but then again maybe they'd enjoy it more and look things up in their free time. Perhaps a bigger problem is that we're preparing these kids to become one thing--a civil engineer, a vet, a nurse, a businessman, a chemist, etc. I think life is about more than being a job title. I think we really need to be teaching them how to learn and how fun discovering new things is, so we don't have to teach, they will teach themselves. But anyways, great video and idea
1Openminded1 9 months ago
Is it safe to say our culture and our teaching system is completely backwards? Speaking to "how we learn" and the skateboarding bit: It seems your method would take a long time, right? Longer than we give kids. So how do we accomplish this? Obviously the whole thing needs to change. We do not give enough time but also there is so much to learn. It's not just science, there are other subjects and there just isn't enough time if kids take "58 attempts" right? Seems it would take forever...
1Openminded1 9 months ago
Watched that part about memorizing the slide from the high school biology class.
Students are treated more like robots. Expected to input and memorize data in a very mechanical way. There is nothing else to the experience other than inputting data like a machine. This offers nothing to a human being and turns kids off to learning.
1Openminded1 9 months ago
Awesome ! I like your approach :)
Riddick6 9 months ago