The Entropy Sessions by Novo Dé

Author:Novo Dé [Dé, Novo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-11T22:00:00+00:00

December 2nd, 2051

“…y then, I just didn’t care anymore. I mean what was the point? They didn’t need me.”

“Surely you didn’t feel that way in the beginning?” Cohen says back.

“No. In the beginning, I actually tried. I mean, I didn’t go above n’ beyond or anything. But I did give…at least…half a shit. I‘d say I operated at the entry level standards of the position.”

“Which were?”

“The basics: I’d show up. Help with the lesson plans. Administer tests. Grade assignments. Tutoring as needed. Mentoring…”

“But we all knew those self guiding programs were right around the corner,” I continue. “I’m shocked they held off as long as they did; I mean we were one of the last districts in the nation to comply after the mandate. And man, I didn’t realize how obsolete teachers were becoming until then. And that’s true now more than ever, especially with the help of NCLs. Whatta fuckin’ game changer that was.”

“Take me through that,” Cohen says, leading again.

“No more traditional lectures anymore off some slide presentation. No more reading to a room, hopin’ you’re gettin’ through to at least one of ‘em. The self guiding programs took out all the guesswork. It would analyze each of the individual kid’s DRI feeds to determine their specific learning needs, utilizing it to create a unique curriculum for each student, be it visual, aural, verbal, physical, logical, social, solitary, or any combination therein, ultimately creating their own unique learning experience.

So what the students learn each week was the same, given the unit, but how they learned, was dramatically different from student to student.

To learn the material, each kid utilizes a built-in tablet-like device at their workstation, and on it, the S-GET, the Self Guiding Education Tool application.

It completely turned our education system on its head. Instead of a teacher giving lecture after lecture, it was the students that began to learn the material through their own means, at their own pace. We would simply come in on the back end, helping to fill in the gaps, when and where needed.

Of course, to make sure the student’s learn a sense of team-work, comradery, we also incorporate group interaction from time to time, although rare in my opinion, be it group assignments, presentations, anything that would incorporate three or more.

But much like the S-GETs, it’s up to the students to figure out how to tackle the group assignments, the subject matter, and come out the other side with the final product, whatever that may be…”

And Cohen smiles, big and bright, tilting his head slightly to the right.

“What?” I cut, acknowledging.

“It’s, it’s just, I actually conducted some of the research for this very thing, the SGE-System, a long time ago now when it was in its infancy. At the time…just a blossoming idea. And now to see it today, hear you speak about it, is quite something.”

“Really?” I say with astonishment.

“Yessir, really. My research helped pave the way to the eradication of the standard teaching and education models in our country. I

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