tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15932919.post7679026034088980257..comments2024-03-26T07:07:14.304-07:00Comments on Teacher Tom: Why I Teach The Way I Do (Civil Disobedience)Teacher Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14606781724784785338noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15932919.post-5030765854807386242012-09-02T20:42:47.120-07:002012-09-02T20:42:47.120-07:00I love this post! We decided to unschool our child...I love this post! We decided to unschool our children for exactly these reasons, but I know that unschooling is a choice that would not work for everyone. We just decided that we'd like to work to change the system from *outside* the system, instead of watching our children's curiousity and individuality get slowly ground down by it.<br /><br />-A Fellow Rabble-RouserAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15932919.post-76900572952065105782012-09-02T17:34:05.711-07:002012-09-02T17:34:05.711-07:00I believe that as long as we have the freedom to p...I believe that as long as we have the freedom to provide alternative educational models outside the system that we can create change. The change we seek is coming because teachers are no longer the sole providers of "academic content." Thanks to the internet, new technologies and things like MOOC's, universities are changing more rapidly than ever before. And, if K-12 education is supposed to prepare students for "higher education," they are next in line for a paradigm shift in how we educate students. Surely the system will go kicking and screaming into the future, but change is upon us. <br /><br />I am part of a group of forward thinking parents and educators who are opening a school on Tuesday. It creates a completely different educational paradigm for education in our geographic area and we are proud to open the Sudbury School of Atlanta. It is a model that empowers students in directing their own learning and operates within a democratic structure.<br /><br />Civil disobedience comes from a situation that mandates obedience. Get outside the public-run systems and we can be the change we want to see in the world. It all starts with the first step...dsoleilhttp://sudburyschoolofatlanta.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15932919.post-63451000204798235562012-09-02T16:39:47.116-07:002012-09-02T16:39:47.116-07:00I like the idea of an 'invitation to explore&#...I like the idea of an 'invitation to explore' and democracy as itself a play-based emergent phenomena.<br /><br />The grammar in your final paragraph reads ambiguously. It sounds like you think "that schools can and should do much better than… 'teach' the skills we know the future, and democracy, will demand: creativity, flexibility etc."<br /><br />Maybe you actually mean that.<br /><br />Because it got me thinking: by replacing the factory/office workplace (as a model for skills needed for future employment) with the entrepreneurs' world (creativity, flexibility etc) are you not still playing the game of Educate for the-Workforce of Tomorrow? -- you've just changed the parameters of what that workforce might be/need. <br /><br />I'm just wondering if that's a rhetorical move on your behalf (you choose an angle that speaks to those that think in terms of the future workforce) and whether you might really think more about being-human that being-suitably-skilled-for-work (work of course being an important but only one part of being human)… "Invitation to explore" for instance suggests we are exploring who we are, and that this exploration might turn up many different ideas/forms/practices which we cannot predict and thus not comment on in terms of usefulness to 'the workforce', 'the nation' and so on.<br /><br />LukeLuke Jaanistehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02364124720159969857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15932919.post-12719188548861624292012-09-02T15:04:55.530-07:002012-09-02T15:04:55.530-07:00Thank you for keeping it real. I look forward to y...Thank you for keeping it real. I look forward to your posts as an oasis of sanity amid the bureaucratic ideology that creates schools that seem much more like jails than places of learning.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15932919.post-68830026893914198372012-09-02T11:13:59.393-07:002012-09-02T11:13:59.393-07:00I teach college level, and I just wanted to let yo...I teach college level, and I just wanted to let you know I learn a lot from your blog. Keep up the good work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com