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Project Idea: Upping High School Attendance
How can we make high school more appealing, engaging, and relevant for students?
How can we make high school education a more participatory process for students?
I target because that's the most obvious problem at the school that I work at now: kids don't come to class. Of course there are extenuating circumstances (a lot of kids work and end up missing class to do that), but in my opinion, it's low attendance is also a symptom of the larger struggle school has to be engaging and relevant to an ever-more demanding student population. This project relates to human behavior for a lot of reasons; namely, it's all about designing a system to be more relevant and engaging to students' lives.
I also think this is going to be really difficult to work with. I'm coming at this from Austria, but with an American high school experience. Prototyping and access in this space will definitely be a challenge; nonetheless, it's a huge, multidimensional problem, which offers many opportunities for incremental change to cause significant impact. A lot of pre-existing work has gone into this, too, which is both good and bad.
I like the idea of us trying to get behind childrens' motivation to or not to go to school. I am also fairly dissatisfied with the current education system, as it makes people uncreative etc. It would be great to have a discussion on to engage young people within the framework of the current education system.
If you already started with something we have something to work with and know it's gonna have some impact.
The self-education movement blames schools to be too generalistic in their approach to educate young children. It is too institutionalized.
Maybe it is also that children do not feel engaged anymore in the form school is presented to them and how they are educated there.
There are too many distractions and other possibilities nowadays to do something that really engages them.