{"id":5975,"date":"2010-10-21T08:49:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T12:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=5975"},"modified":"2010-10-21T14:38:51","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T18:38:51","slug":"an-excellent-example-of-how-not-to-teach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/10\/21\/an-excellent-example-of-how-not-to-teach\/","title":{"rendered":"An excellent example of how <em>not<\/em> to teach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/10\/20\/virginia-school-ap-h.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cory Doctorow<\/a> finds the worst example of teacher overreach (for this week, anyway):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Fundamentally, these teachers have prohibited doing any kind of outside work, having any productive discussion with your friends and family that might connect the history you&#8217;re learning with the world you&#8217;re living in. They have reduced education to absorbing and regurgitating a specific set of facts, divorcing it from any kind of critical thinking, synthesis, or intellectual rigor.<\/p>\n<p>Parents have complained to the principal, who &#8220;will decide soon whether these rules are okay.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I had a high school history teacher who marked me down for including additional information that wasn&#8217;t in the textbook (I read history for interest well before high school). I wonder if this is one of her relatives . . .<\/p>\n<p>If I was a parent of one of these students, I&#8217;d be giving strong consideration to moving my kid to another school if the principal upholds this policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cory Doctorow finds the worst example of teacher overreach (for this week, anyway): Fundamentally, these teachers have prohibited doing any kind of outside work, having any productive discussion with your friends and family that might connect the history you&#8217;re learning with the world you&#8217;re living in. They have reduced education to absorbing and regurgitating a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,79,7],"tags":[52,504],"class_list":["post-5975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-education","category-history","tag-absurd","tag-teenagers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1yn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5975"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5988,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975\/revisions\/5988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}