Which incidentally that example is the critical thinking everyone demanded schools teach
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tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 12 hours agoThere are so many people online with no pedagogical training who rail against common core, but a lot of it is trying to bring education standards to be more skills based rather than whatever they were doing back in the day. Like high school English classes have standards like “can cite textual evidence to support identification of the theme of a text”, rather than shit like my old essays that teachers marked up like “missing comma, minus 0.5 points”.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 18 minutes ago
Yeah, which also goes along with the people who complain that their English teacher pointed out that the curtains were blue and that meant the character was sad. I know there are shitty teachers out there who maybe read out of a teachers guide that blue curtains = sad and that’s as far as the lesson went, but I bet in most cases the class was about noticing motifs and subtext and the only thing they came away with was “lol my teacher thinks curtains means something deep”.
And then those are the kind of people to complain later that the country is going to shit because no one teaches critical thinking these days, like you said.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Or training what so ever. I’m not sure how I finished a physics degree, but I’ll see a common core question that’s effectively about associative or distributive properties of multiplication and someone saying that’s not a thing. Often the kind of person that says algebra is obscured by the letters and one should just stick with numbers.