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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 5413239" data-attributes="member: 59082">LOL! My true colors are revealed. Actually, I don't teach English, at least not right now, but I am a high school teacher - both a dorm counselor and Humanities teacher. The school I work at is a small independent boarding and day school with a very artistic vibe, so the kids tend to be more on the creative side of things. But I still see a lot of what I've been complaining about, especially from the students with more conventional backgrounds (e.g. public school). However, I also see a lot of fertile young imaginations just dying to be inspired, and I think partially because of technology inundation. Actually, I just started teaching a class on World Building to a group of 15 juniors and seniors and they are absolutely loving it. It is experimental and the faculty is going out on a limb a bit to let me teach it, but I'm hoping it is successful enough that I can not only continue teaching it but expand on it. I personally think that World Building provides a potentially almost complete academic and artistic experience: you can pretty much include anything in it and customize the experience for each student. For example, one of my students is creating her own language while another is focusing on strange planetary/orbital dynamics, while a few are creating utopian spiritual cultures, others in-depth biospheres, etc.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 5413239, member: 59082"] LOL! My true colors are revealed. Actually, I don't teach English, at least not right now, but I am a high school teacher - both a dorm counselor and Humanities teacher. The school I work at is a small independent boarding and day school with a very artistic vibe, so the kids tend to be more on the creative side of things. But I still see a lot of what I've been complaining about, especially from the students with more conventional backgrounds (e.g. public school). However, I also see a lot of fertile young imaginations just dying to be inspired, and I think partially because of technology inundation. Actually, I just started teaching a class on World Building to a group of 15 juniors and seniors and they are absolutely loving it. It is experimental and the faculty is going out on a limb a bit to let me teach it, but I'm hoping it is successful enough that I can not only continue teaching it but expand on it. I personally think that World Building provides a potentially almost complete academic and artistic experience: you can pretty much include anything in it and customize the experience for each student. For example, one of my students is creating her own language while another is focusing on strange planetary/orbital dynamics, while a few are creating utopian spiritual cultures, others in-depth biospheres, etc. [/QUOTE]

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