tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post9172700709969278610..comments2024-03-28T08:55:53.818-04:00Comments on Perdido Street School: De Blasio To Mandate Computer Science In Schoolsreality-based educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-30027382691984753712015-09-17T22:37:07.481-04:002015-09-17T22:37:07.481-04:00Yes, I'm glad to hear someone else thinks kids...Yes, I'm glad to hear someone else thinks kids need home economics! Seriously. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00402385922506783035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-69564620230808953022015-09-16T09:18:36.892-04:002015-09-16T09:18:36.892-04:00Blah. All this STEM bullshit.....
And it is bulls...Blah. All this STEM bullshit.....<br />And it is bullshit....trumped up corporate ethos.<br /><br />Interesting thing: a major country that had a super-high level of technical graduate degrees per square mile and a very rigorous focus on what we call STEM.....Nazi Germany.<br /><br />Science/Technology is only truly useful when tempered with the humanities. One cannot be privileged above the other. <br />They require each other.<br /><br />The path much of our educational thinking is now taking, even the seemingly non-controversial focus on STEM of late, as illustrated by this current nonsense with deBlasio, is being steered and advanced by myopic corporate forces who have a distinctly ungrounded, libertarian, and deeply nonsensical view of the liberating force of technology that seems to have been whipped up from bad science fiction of the 1970s and 80s. <br /><br />This isn't just ed reformers and their view of technology as being essential in the dismantling of organized teachers....ed reform is at bottom just about privatizing and breaking unions...this STEM thing is much deeper and has somehow seeped into the realm of uncontroversial. <br /><br />It is controversial and deeply misguided. A society of technocrats and tech-workers has the historical possibility of leading to efficient railroads to death camps. <br /><br />Education...real education....is about building a society resistant to genocide and susceptible to the enlightenment. STEM, and a deeply over-focused view of STEM, does not address those real goals adequately. <br /><br />We actually need a doubling down on the humanities. No technology interface needed.<br /><br />I am no Luddite, but really, this is getting ridiculous. <br />Oh, also: Steve Jobs was an asshole and not a deity. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-27495465279584084132015-09-16T06:37:45.003-04:002015-09-16T06:37:45.003-04:00Yes, many students I've come across can't ...Yes, many students I've come across can't do very basic things, that most adults take for granted. They can't tell time, read or write script, sign their names(!), or cook simple meals. Common Core is not Common Sense and those items are simply not deemed of any value by it.Bronx ATRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08787717237141454628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-83581010527185529172015-09-16T03:17:48.663-04:002015-09-16T03:17:48.663-04:00I am Hwa Jurong, a Private Money Lender do you nee...I am Hwa Jurong, a Private Money Lender do you need a loan to start up business or to pay your bills and a corporate financial for real estate and any kinds of business financing. I also offer Loans to individuals,Firms and corporate bodies at 2% interest rate. I give out loan to serious minded people that are interested of loan if interested contact this email: hwajurong382@yahoo.com or hwajurong12@gmail.comAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18262315848179799521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-79988112719117113552015-09-15T22:31:29.458-04:002015-09-15T22:31:29.458-04:00What is computer science? Seriously, what the hel...What is computer science? Seriously, what the hell is that? Another fake computer class with printers that don't work, where kids go on pandora and listen to music? Computer Science huh? Nice. Just hit 20K in per session up until Sept 1st. Plenty of per session out there. Thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-74594151284211110152015-09-15T22:03:41.007-04:002015-09-15T22:03:41.007-04:00Is there a course being offered in Common
Sense? I...Is there a course being offered in Common<br />Sense? It is a quality greatly lacking in contemporary society.<br /><br />Abigail ShureAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com