{"id":2890,"date":"2019-05-20T01:24:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T06:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2890"},"modified":"2019-05-04T08:33:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T13:33:29","slug":"if-learning-is-the-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2019\/05\/if-learning-is-the-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"If Learning is the Goal&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Schools are for learning. Or are schools for teaching? The two are different.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If learning is the goal, this school district succeeded. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/students-hack-high-school-wifi-to-get-out-of-tests\/\">High school students<\/a> crash the WiFi system so the teachers cannot access homework assignments.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The kids at that high school <em>learned<\/em> a lot. They <em>learned<\/em> computing; they <em>learned<\/em> computer security; they <em>learned<\/em> the psychology of design; they <em>learned<\/em>&#8230;we could go on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps what they learned is not what the adults in the school district were attempting to <em>teach<\/em>. Ah, there is a difference in what the adults were <em>teach<\/em>ing and what the kids were <em>learn<\/em>ing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let us recognize that the adults\u2014whether by accident (probably) or design (probably not)\u2014provided the <em>motivation<\/em> for learning. They created a situation in which the kids <em>wanted to learn<\/em> computer security and all those other things. Let us give them credit for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, if they (the adults, not the kids) can take this lesson and apply their own learnings to all the other things&#8230;<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Schools are for learning. Or are schools for teaching? The two are different. If learning is the goal, this school district succeeded. &#8220;High school students crash the WiFi system so the teachers cannot access homework assignments.&#8221; The kids at that high school learned a lot. They learned computing; they learned computer security; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,265,90,20,102],"tags":[120,266,207,142,217],"class_list":["post-2890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adults","category-childhood","category-education","category-learning","category-teaching","tag-adults","tag-childhood","tag-education","tag-learning","tag-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2891,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/revisions\/2891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}