I'm teaching my 5th graders how to use drills and drivers right now. We're going to build a greenhouse and grow some vegetables. I feel like the first proto-human who taught a child how to make a stone axe. This is better than AI. All the 'edtech thought leaders' telling me I need to integrate AI into my curriculum can shrivel up and blow away on the cold cyber wind of 'progress'. I will keep teaching kids to do real stuff and make the world a better place. #edu #teacher #maker #making #fablab
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@rabbit_fighter sounds fantastic
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@rabbit_fighter Wow! In an era before litigation we had 'Industrial Arts' in middle school. I learned skills such as rudimentary drafting that I've used routinely all my life.
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@LovingFalloutLondon1954 @rabbit_fighter In my era, they wouldn't let girls take industrial arts classes. I had to take cooking and sewing.
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@ELS @LovingFalloutLondon1954 I remember that era but the girls in my class are killing it with the power tools.
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@rabbit_fighter @ELS @LovingFalloutLondon1954 In my school, everybody learned everything. So, the boys learned how to knot and sew with the girls, and the girls got to wield a hatchet, a rasp and a file along with the boys to craft a wooden ladle. I really don't get how schools in some countries make kids afraid of using knives as tools.
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@rabbit_fighter
This is some real-life hero shit!
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@rabbit_fighter This is so valuable. I recall, 35 years ago, handing a vice grip to a college student helping me build a greenhouse, and he had no idea what the tool was nor how to use it.
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@rabbit_fighter I teach sewing to adults- and it’s a needed skill the way things are going- have fun with your building stuff!
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@TAV We have sewing in our curriculum too. It's a great way to teach design thinking. The first computer was a jaqcuard loom!
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@rabbit_fighter @TAV Oh yes, jacquard looms are so cool 🥰
I sew only very rarely, but I did have fun with a collaborative project recently, where my mother provided the art work and let e use her sewing machine https://mastodon.scot/@gunchleoc/113169753137923961
Sewing does take some math and engineering skills. You also need math for knitting a simple sweater.
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@rabbit_fighter I #love #teachers ❤️❤️❤️
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@rabbit_fighter Good stuff ... but ... how come the H&S nazis allow you to do that?
(Yes I know that H&S done properly by trained professionals is absolutely fine - it's the way it's sometimes misinterpreted by amateurs that isn't.)
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@TimWardCam We're very safe--eye protection, ear protection, gloves, etc. Luckily the admin team at my school believes pretty strongly in the benefits of making.
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@rabbit_fighter
Sounds great!
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@rabbit_fighter Practical & sustainable life skills. Good to read this.
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@rabbit_fighter
Good on ya!
What sort of greenhouse are you making?
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@murodegrizeco We're just knocking it together out of 2 x 4s. It will be about 8 x 8 feet with polycarbonate panels. The students all collaborated on the design.
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@rabbit_fighter
When my kids were little, one asked for a playhouse in the yard.
It was drizzly out, as I puttered about, gathering materials, tools, lumber.
"I think I will make it 6' x 6', you know?", I told my spouse.
She shook her head, said "Nah! Why so small?"
So I made it 8' x 8', so it would serve little kids.
And the teenagers they'd grow into.
And as a Zoom meeting room for the work-from-home guy I was for 3 years.
And for trumpet practice, book reading and hammock naps.
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@murodegrizeco awesome.
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@rabbit_fighter Well, building something as cool as a greenhouse I also would love to do. Building for living things to thrive and finally enjoying a harvest 💚🍀. That’s the right approach!
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@rabbit_fighter if the world's weather keeps going the way it is, skills in growing food might well be a lot more valuable than being able to train an LLM.
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@rabbit_fighter@mastodon.world Have you seen the Primitive Technology channel on YouTube? That guy is amazing.
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@gme Yes, love those videos!
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@rabbit_fighter
Yes yes yes yes yes!!!!?
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@rabbit_fighter There is more to life than video games. Teach life skills, banking, carpentry, cooking, mechanics, finances and most important is common sense.
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@mickymorse Agree. We're teaching habits of mind, critical thinking, and the joy of making something with your own hands. They can take that and make a whole life out of it.
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@rabbit_fighter
I hereby nominate you to be the CEO of DODE (Department of Dimwit Eradication).
It is appalling how far Americans have gone in producing children who are of the Virtual world of nonsense, ignorance, resentment, social ineptitude, and screen addiction. Thank you very much for making a stand in favor of Reality world, and raising kids who will be prepared to live there.
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@rabbit_fighter maybe some Crypto, then?
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@UweNeufeld heh. Yes. I'll have them make some NFTs maybe.
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@rabbit_fighter
Kids who really know how to do real things in the real world with real stuff will never have trouble knowing how to use “AI”, including when to mostly abstain.
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@DavidM_yeg Yes, that's my new mantra.
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@rabbit_fighter When I read this, I am reminded of the Fixers’ Manifesto https://www.ifixit.com/manifesto , and a book, Shopclass as Soulcraft (M. Crawford).
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@NiagaraDoyle I'm going to have to read that book. Thanks for the rec.
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@rabbit_fighter If this is a metalwork project I know you are teaching them how to use a centre punch. I ran into one adult in my local makergroup who did not know.
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@Dianora Great opportunity for them to learn, and for you to teach. I wish we could do more work with metal. I'd love to have a 3D milling machine.
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@rabbit_fighter yes. and a lathe!
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@rabbit_fighter to be honest this is what progress actually looks like.
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@rabbit_fighter doing real stuff is a radical act. Making, mending, growing , sustaining.
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@rabbit_fighter I couldnt relate more. AI is literally designed to replace the act of problem solving. I've also just been learning about brain development in children and how important that is. Taking that together with what I know about the technology the implications are frightning - especially because this potential dumbing down of the population is what some would want.
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@RavenLuni Yes, that's one of my main objections. AI replaces productive struggle (which is essential for learning) with...I don't even know what. Nothing good.
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@rabbit_fighter
Brad for president
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@rabbit_fighter So much more fun and useful for the kids to be learning practical skills than prompting a stupid LLM. I hope there are many more teachers like you out there.
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@rabbit_fighter
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
Every classroom should have this quote framed.
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@aukondk Yes. Putting it up in my classroom immediately.
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