{"id":65594,"date":"2018-12-27T18:01:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T23:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=65594"},"modified":"2018-12-27T20:54:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T01:54:21","slug":"a-new-idea-for-a-show-would-you-watch-this-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2018\/12\/27\/a-new-idea-for-a-show-would-you-watch-this-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"A new idea for a show! Would *you* watch this? [Christian]"},"content":{"rendered":"

From DSC:<\/em><\/span>
\nNot too long ago, I really enjoyed watching a program on PBS regarding America’s 100 most-loved books, entitled,<\/span> “The Great American Read.”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Watch “The Grand Finale”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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While that’s not the show I’m talking about, it got me to thinking of one similar to it — something educational, yet entertaining. But also, something more.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The program that came to my mind would be a program that’s focused on significant topics and issues within American society — offered up in a debate\/presentation style format.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

For example, you could have different individuals, groups, or organizations discuss the pros and cons of an issue or topic.<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0The show would provide contact information for helpful resources, groups, organizations, legislators, etc.\u00a0 These contacts would be for learning more about a subject or getting involved with finding a solution for that problem. <\/span><\/p>\n

For example, how about this for a potential topic: <\/b><\/span>Grades or no grades?<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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  • What are the pros and cons of using an A-F grading system?<\/span><\/li>\n
  • What are the benefits and issues\/drawbacks with using grades?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  • How are we truly using grades Do we use them to rank and compare individuals, schools, school systems, communities? Do we use them to “weed people out” of a program?<\/span><\/li>\n
  • With our current systems, what “product” do we get? Do we produce game-players or people who enjoy learning? (Apologies for some of my bias showing up here! But my son has become a major game-player and, likely, so did I at his age.)<\/span><\/li>\n
  • How do grades jibe with\u00a0Individualized Education Programs (IEPs)? On one hand…how do you keep someone moving forward, staying positive, and trying to keep learning\/school enjoyable yet on the other hand, how do you have those grades mean something to those who obtain data to rank school systems, communities, colleges, programs, etc.?<\/span><\/li>\n
  • How do grades impact one’s desire to learn throughout one’s lifetime?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
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    …<\/span><\/p>\n

    Such debates could be watched by students and then they could have their own debates on subjects that they propose.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Or the show could have journalists debate college or high school teams. The format could sometimes involve professors and deans debating against researchers. Or practitioners\/teachers debating against researchers\/cognitive psychologists.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Such a show could be entertaining, yet highly applicable and educational. We would probably all learn something. And perhaps have our eyes opened up to a new perspective on an issue.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Or better yet, we might actually resolve some more issues and then move on to address other ones!<\/span><\/p>\n

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    From DSC: Not too long ago, I really enjoyed watching a program on PBS regarding America’s 100 most-loved books, entitled, “The Great American Read.”   Watch “The Grand Finale”   While that’s not the show I’m talking about, it got me to thinking of one similar to it — something educational, yet entertaining. But also, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,374,68,115,302,72,434,343,141,533,545,3,373,419,180,46,102,7,228,423,408,101,486,217,480,293,66,466,321,214,11,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-adult-learning","category-assessment","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-daniel-s-christian","category-dramatheater","category-education","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-experimentation","category-heutagogy","category-higher-education","category-homeschoolinghomeschoolers","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-k-12-related","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-preferences","category-love-of-learning","category-mediafilm","category-psychology","category-real-world-assignments","category-research","category-society","category-sociology","category-student-related","category-television","category-united-states","category-universities","category-vision-possibilities","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65594"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65613,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65594\/revisions\/65613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}