Iliti: šta da kaže jedna, nesmirujuća, ljuta, besna i očajna: tri-dana-na-bensedinima-majka svom detetu koje je mesecima učilo, dok su drugi kupovali gotove testove?
Šta da kaže (sinu svome) majka koja je potrošila 500 evra da bi dete što bolje naučilo materiju? Šta da kaže sada, kada je 'zbog nespobnosti države da organizuje malu maturu, sav rad pao u vodu'?
Razmišljajući o ovim slučajevima (helikopter roditelju, ti li si?), reših da, umesto bensedina ponudim sledeće, jer - verujte, može to sve i bezbolnije:
In a recent interview in the New York Times, Laszlo Bock, a senior vice president at Google, reported on the evolution of his company's hiring strategies. One comment caught my eye:
One of the things we've seen from all our data crunching is that G.P.A.'s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless-no correlation at all except for brand-new college grads, where there's a slight correlation. Google famously used to ask everyone for a transcript and G.P.A.'s and test scores, but we don't anymore, unless you're just a few years out of school. We found that they don't predict anything.
Let's get this straight. All the attention everyone pays for all those years to students' grades and test scores-everybody from parents to administrators to college admissions officers and school evaluators-is basically pointless in the long run. It's unlikely this is just a Google thing. Students with great grades may make lousy employees, and underachievers in school might be invaluable assets when they're in the work world. Laszlo explains why:
[Y]our ability to perform at Google is completely unrelated to how you performed when you were in school, because the skills you required in college are very different.
Different how?
I think academic environments are artificial environments. People who succeed there are sort of finely trained, they're conditioned to succeed in that environment. One of my own frustrations when I was in college and grad school is that you knew the professor was looking for a specific answer. You could figure that out, but it's much more interesting to solve problems where there isn't an obvious answer. You want people who like figuring out stuff where there is no obvious answer.
Daklem,
dragi roditelji, ono što vaša deca nauče i trud koji su uložila (i naročito zbog truda), ne pada u vodu. Biće da u to veruju najviše oni koji su radi da znanje (pot)kupe (na ovaj, ili onaj način). No, ukoliko baš želite nešto da (po)kažete svojoj deci (mada, biće da kada su ove stvari u pitanju, reči i nisu od neke važnosti, naročito ukoliko tri dana pijete bensedine), pokušajte ovako:
1. Open culture
2. The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts 372 art history books online
3. Smithsonian Edu
4. Capelle Sistina
5. Open Learn
6. BBC Science and Nature
7. Ted Lessons
8. Harvard
9. DkOnline
10. Children's University of Manchester
11. Digitalna Narodna Biblioteka Srbije
12. International Children's Digital Library
13. National History Museum (Kids)
14. The Dino Directory - National History Museum
15. National Geographic: Exploration Timeline
16. Storybird
17. FactMonster
18. Britannica
19. Politikin Zabavnik
20. Mali Zabavnik
21. Fraboom - Online Children's Museum
22. Ministarstvo Prosvete - konkursi
23. Google Art Project
24. Pravopas
25. British Council - Learn English
26. Neo K12 - Educational Videos
27. BBC Primary History
28. Wonderville
30. Made by Joel
31. Duolingo
32. The scale of the Universe
33. Scratch (Create stories, games, and animations)
34. The Incredible Machiines
35. Toys from Trash
36. Project Gutenberg
37. Chester's voice simulator
38. Italijanski kroz Kancone (Italiano con le canzoni estive)
39. The Lawrence Hall of Science
40. Wonderpolis
41. Funbrain
42. NGA Kids
43. Seusville
44. SwitchZoo
45. Funology
46. Extreme Science
47. Print 'n' Go Colouring Book
48. Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century
49. Library of Congress
50. Pyramids - the inside story
51. Big Blog Comics
52. Go Comics
53. Science Bob
54. Lego Build with Chrome
55. Discovery Education & Wilkes University
56. Smarthistory
57. TryEngineeering - games
i za kraj:
„Većina današnjih roditelja vaspitavana je u kulturi gde se svako tretira kao poseban. Biti poseban zahteva mnogo rada i posebnost se ne može nametnuti deci. Odatle potiče onaj začarani krug konstantnog nadziranja dece i njihovog uspeha, što kod dece stvara osećaj da su nesposobna i ruši im samopouzdanje, pa im treba dodatni nadzor."