Millionaire teachers: a lucrative online marketplace for lesson plans

Post by sdflkd » Thu, Apr 13, 2017, 8:28 PM UTC

QuarterReptile wrote: post #22

pee_arrr wrote: post #13

This is textbook PR, literally from the first word. The headline is crafted specifically to engender resentment and outrage. The intention is to reinforce the counterfactual narrative that teachers in the US are overpaid, which is needed to depress opposition to the looting of public school systems. Now, a market for lesson plans is interesting - and I'm much happier with money going to entrepreneurial teachers actua…

Could you point me to what you mean, or how you found that meaning here? I grant that I probably bring my own biases to this interpretation, but the article made me think, "teachers now have to spend their own salaries on teaching material because districts only buy lousy, overpriced stuff (if that) from textbook publishers. Worse yet, the jerks feel the need to attack the teachers who are sharing their material, as…

Post by dylz » Thu, Apr 13, 2017, 11:01 PM UTC

zardo wrote: post #6

bko wrote: post #2

I don't see the downside here. Being able to sell lesson plans would be a nice little bonus to often underpaid teachers. It would have the upside of having teachers put in a little more work in developing their lesson plans if they think they can sell them. Other teachers would be able to benefit greatly from purchasing other lesson plans and saving time and effort. I don't think it would harm the "traditional collab…

>I don't see the downside here. The new thing here isn't lesson plans for sale, it's a marketplace with small vendors. So this isn't a new downside, but sponsored content is a continual worry. A train carrying delicious Pepsi products is traveling from the Pepsi plant in Pepsi-town to the Pepsi distribution center in Pepsi-city. What is your favorite beverage?

Post by coolgeek » Fri, Apr 14, 2017, 12:55 AM UTC

socrates1998 wrote: post #23

Man, I don't get why Teachers stress so much on lesson plans. I was a high school teacher for about a decade and after the first three years, it doesn't take long or difficult to have lesson plans available. If you want ideas, the school district often has a crap load of them. And if you are teaching a standardized course (like Algebra or Geometry) you are essentially provided lesson plans for every day. The website…

Post by komali2 » Fri, Apr 14, 2017, 4:33 PM UTC

namlem wrote: post #26

komali2 wrote: post #8

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Ideally we'd abandon this weird psuedo-capitalist idea of education and just convince our government that education is the best investment a country can make . An educated populace will devise better defense technologies and strategies. An educated populace will create more efficient means of production. An educated populace will strategize better trade deals. An educated populace will create more cultural icons that…

Throwing money at the problem isn't necessarily going to help. Tons of poor school districts have gotten major cash infusions and produced nothing to show for it. The money needs to be spent efficiently. Power needs to be taken away from administrators and given back to teachers. Also, bad teachers need to be fired.