Anonymous
10/27/2024 10:37
Subject: Environmental impact SSL project
Anonymous wrote:Middle schoolers are doing an SSL project to help the environment. They need to analyze their energy/resource/environmental impact, and do a month long project to change their behavior, and measure impact of change.
Teacher gave suggestions like "shorter showers". Easy, impactful, measurable.
So the kids are NOT doing that, because they want to make unique, bespoke, but ultimately lower impact projects.
I would be delighted if at the end of the project the teacher showed the kids how their "creative" ideas were measurably worse than putting effort into implementing boring good ideas, and at the end of the day results matter, but I know teacher won't have the guts.
Another way that school in practice is counterproductive charade thet undermines the stated goals of its lessons.
Why wouldn’t a teacher have the guts to show them the impact of their projects vs other ideas? It doesn’t have to impact the grading but would actually be useful part of the project. As people complete the project and do their presentations the next student task be entering the impact or lack of impact into a data chart for the whole class. The class can then use that chart to determine which ideas had meaningful impact vs what did not and compare that against average data of the impact of “known boring ideas.” It would be a great lesson for students that sometimes that not so shiny ideas are the best, but that innovation is still needed and welcome.
Anonymous
10/26/2024 21:55
Subject: Environmental impact SSL project
Maybe instead, they could just do a project where they all go out and pick up trash in the neighborhood for one class period. And get SSL hours for it.
Get the kids outside. Get the kids making a difference. Clean up and make a noticeable impact.
Get the kids outside. Get the kids making a difference. Clean up and make a noticeable impact.
Anonymous
10/26/2024 15:48
Subject: Environmental impact SSL project
And?
Anonymous
10/26/2024 11:53
Subject: Environmental impact SSL project
Middle schoolers are doing an SSL project to help the environment. They need to analyze their energy/resource/environmental impact, and do a month long project to change their behavior, and measure impact of change.
Teacher gave suggestions like "shorter showers". Easy, impactful, measurable.
So the kids are NOT doing that, because they want to make unique, bespoke, but ultimately lower impact projects.
I would be delighted if at the end of the project the teacher showed the kids how their "creative" ideas were measurably worse than putting effort into implementing boring good ideas, and at the end of the day results matter, but I know teacher won't have the guts.
Another way that school in practice is counterproductive charade thet undermines the stated goals of its lessons.
Teacher gave suggestions like "shorter showers". Easy, impactful, measurable.
So the kids are NOT doing that, because they want to make unique, bespoke, but ultimately lower impact projects.
I would be delighted if at the end of the project the teacher showed the kids how their "creative" ideas were measurably worse than putting effort into implementing boring good ideas, and at the end of the day results matter, but I know teacher won't have the guts.
Another way that school in practice is counterproductive charade thet undermines the stated goals of its lessons.