Did it ever cross your mind why don't we have "Black Friday" in education? Picture this: hundreds of sleepless students queuing out of the classroom door waiting anxiously to get into the class!! Education seems to be a fairly cheap service (sometimes even for free). And the impact is knowledge and skills for life, no expiration date!! Normally education should qualify as a top priority "product", yet images as in Black Friday outside the stores are far from reality in institutions. Something is fundamentally wrong or we do something wrong?
Let's stick to this for a while and listen to your opinion on this provoking thought: What if there was a Black Friday in education, what could we do to see students rushing through the door to catch the desk with the best access to their learning?
The discussion is open. I will gather your comments or emails and post back.
Petros Kefalas
IFDLT
Let's stick to this for a while and listen to your opinion on this provoking thought: What if there was a Black Friday in education, what could we do to see students rushing through the door to catch the desk with the best access to their learning?
The discussion is open. I will gather your comments or emails and post back.
Petros Kefalas
IFDLT
Black Friday is an epitome of capitalism. Black Friday as a metaphor to have students rushing into classrooms should derive from their thirst to learn. I have the example of a student in Bulgaria with a scholarship travelling 10 hours on a bus to come to class and taking days off from her annual leave in her secretarial work to ensure her CWs and exams were a distinction level. She was first desk open eyes, so much hunger! teaching and learning is a tango and you need two to tango. The students need to have that hunger and desire for learning. Nowadays it feels teaching and learning has become a lonely dance where the desire for learning seems to steam mainly with the teacher. I encourage all as educators to keep that fire going and to learners to have the huger and desire for learning. That way the passion of tango can be ignited beyond a black Friday metaphor which is more capitalistic based. Passion and thirst for knowledge does need "two" to tango, is that collaboration and co-production that makes human learning what it is, largely a social construction.
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