The Broken Model by Khan

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  Assignment B: The Broken Model by Khan

  
  

  I want to first talk about the video that was paired with the reading. I really enjoyed this mini YouTube video and I began to realize - wow, maybe this is something that I can show in my classes as a teacher! I questioned pushing boundaries or being too risky with outward conversation around the system that we live in. College classes usually call for this type of thinking. I wonder if high school has more strict rules around what the teachers can show to students and create dialogue around.

  
  

  This text titled "The Broken Model" by Khan is very informative on how we got to where we are in the education system. Prior to the reading, I did not realize we were using a model that was founded in Prussia. What even is Prussia?

  
  

  The author questions the system in this article and asking important questions surrounding our education system. They touch on themes such as tradition, social constructs, and just how hard it is to create systemic change. They also note that the education system is very much so intertwined with the rest of society, and if we were to change the system, it would inevitably alter other systems as well. They write, "educational system is intertwined with many other customs and institutions. Changing education would therefore lead to changes in other aspects of our society as well" (Khan 62). The gears of society benefit and operate from the other internal systems, whether they benefit and advance humanity or not.

  
  

  

  
  

  (me realizing memes would assist my classroom teaching so much) (I don't think memes existed when I was in high school?) (fun = improved attention?) Using memes as a Teaching Tool

  
  

  I think Johnson and Khan are related to each other in the sense that they are highly inquisitive of these systems that are seemingly overlooked and under-realized in society. These frameworks in which we have developed ourselves and the systems that we work in come from outdated concepts that may not be synonymous with

  evolution. Khan discusses an education model that decreases free thinking and creativity and emphasizes rigidity and blocked schedules. There is a lack of permission within these systems and a disregard for the "non-standard."

  
  

  I think that social systems are going to be a major theme in this course and in the readings we cover. Johnson and Khan are both critical of the systems we have developed and ways in which we may tinker and adjust what is seemingly ingrained and deeply set in our lives.

  
  

  
  
  Tap the glass...