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If you were a professor, what course would you teach?

5913 sats \ 61 comments \ @birdeye21 12 Nov 2023 meta

I would've killed to have had schooling on Economic Philosophy, so I'd teach that myself...I'd save the Bitcoin talk for last, or at least try to.

What subject would you want to break down over the course of several months? What are schools lacking that they should be teaching??

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2559 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b 12 Nov 2023

I’d teach “How to Fail” … which would be a kind of unschooling to help transition people to real world learning

615 sats \ 0 replies \ @brandonsbytes 13 Nov 2023

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503 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 13 Nov 2023

Important life skills: Reframing failure as opportunities to improve and having the mental and emotional capacity to analyse failure and adopt solutions to ensure success!

41 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 13 Nov 2023

The same “ I learned how to win by learning how to lose” specifically I’ve learned that in competitive running, but applied it to all aspects of life. I’m also a scrum master and love teaching lean. I mean we only have 168 hours in a week. Time is our most valuable resource and Bitcoin harnesses that via energy! How do you spend yours?

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @evanbaer 12 Nov 2023

+1 for this

Top 5 list as a first step?

241 sats \ 2 replies \ @cryotosensei 13 Nov 2023

I have worked professionally as an English teacher all my working life, so this question appeals to me. Though I guess if I were given the chance to teach college undergraduates, I wouldn’t need to teach them to mind their full stops and commas heh.

I believe that teaching is the best way to accelerate one’s learning. So, the topic that has captured my imagination and galvanised my attention is Artificial Intelligence. I think I would be able to find enough material to engage me (and my students) for a term.

Since I want to carve a niche for myself as a forward-looking teacher who is adept at leveraging AI to enhance his productivity, I’m currently reading “Generative AI: How ChatGPT and other AI tools will revolutionise business”. We tend to assume that ChatGPT ignited our consciousness all of a sudden, but this book informed me of the many years of hard work AI scientists and developers have done so that mankind’s collective intelligence and expertise could create ChatGPT last year. Hence, I would definitely include lectures on the evolution of AI so that my students can follow its development. After all, hindsight brings about foresight.

Personally, I also want to teach my students to be able to mindset-switch. Just as we code-switch between the vernacular and the formal register depending on whom we are speaking to, we should be keenly aware of the cognitive demands a task requires of us and respond to them promptly and effectively. For instance, if I have to get a class of graduation testimonials, I would consult ChatGPT because it’s more skilled than me at using pertinent phrases to describe an individual. However, if I want to write a confessional column for my personal blog, I would most likely not engage ChatGPT because I don’t want any intrusion on my original thoughts and phrasing. My students are likely to have to be prompt engineers - whether they like it or not - so it’s my responsibility to teach them how to use their language skills to get the most out of Generative AI.

Indeed, the sky is the limit. I found out recently that we are allowed to see the images we generate from AI platforms. I may not be good at Photoshop and other software, but hey, if I utilise my prompt engineering skills well, I may be able to carve a viable side hustle out of AI-generated images. Let me report back six months later!

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 13 Nov 2023

Please do report back :)

It will be quite interesting to see what subjects tend to get dominated by AI driven learning and what others will require a more human touch. And yes, we'll develop new courses entirely with incoming technology

Mindset-switch would be a very very cool class, Let me know when I can enroll!!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 14 Nov 2023

Glad to know I have an engaged student!

346 sats \ 1 reply \ @ninjag 12 Nov 2023

History and Maths ;)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 12 Nov 2023

;( no math >:P nooo

310 sats \ 2 replies \ @hasherstacker 12 Nov 2023

I'd teach "types of slavery"

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @birdeye21 OP 12 Nov 2023

would be very interesting, is there any good content written up about this already?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 13 Nov 2023

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135 sats \ 0 replies \ @pi 13 Nov 2023

The art of stillness

137 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 12 Nov 2023

I will teach how to avoid schools and not go to schools.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 12 Nov 2023

Tax evasion and class evasion...the two essentials

93 sats \ 1 reply \ @TwoLargePizzas 12 Nov 2023

Austrian economics.

I also have 30 years experience in software engineering so I should probably teach that.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 12 Nov 2023

i imagine it would get old to teach a subject as a 30yr vet

at least you'll learn more along the way too with a different subject

170 sats \ 1 reply \ @donomoto 12 Nov 2023

Advanced euchre strategy

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @jgbtc 13 Nov 2023

Pass up a bower, lose for an hour.

104 sats \ 0 replies \ @SpaceHodler 12 Nov 2023

How to fuck the system.

Naturally bitcoin would be part of it.

But I still have a lot to learn myself. It's a never-ending journey.

104 sats \ 0 replies \ @Valley_D0g 12 Nov 2023

PROFFESOR SAT STACKER

70 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 12 Nov 2023

Mathematics

46 sats \ 1 reply \ @shyfire 12 Nov 2023

Bash essentials

28 sats \ 0 replies \ @nemo 13 Nov 2023

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76 sats \ 1 reply \ @Lux 12 Nov 2023

Sovereign living

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 12 Nov 2023

was thinking about this...a class on sovereignty in general. thanks for sharing this

72 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scholarhacker 12 Nov 2023

Amateur Science: The intersection of art, science and technology as a driver for discovery, innovation and knowledge creation.

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 12 Nov 2023

Thinking in retrospect, i was independently diving into all three of these points pretty deeply before coming to bitcoin. interesting.

72 sats \ 0 replies \ @Zepasta 12 Nov 2023

62 sats \ 2 replies \ @thursday 12 Nov 2023

Nuclear physics. Even introductory is fine. It may not be so obvious right now, but having understanding of the primitives can change your perspective in life. That and it can lead to more people getting basic knowledge to help progress humanity.

31 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury 12 Nov 2023

It may not be so obvious right now, but having understanding of the primitives can change your perspective in life.

I'm always looking for other perspectives. How has it changed how you see the world?

252 sats \ 0 replies \ @thursday 13 Nov 2023

It has helped understand nothing happens in a vacuum. Even pico scopic events, all relate to another. So how you tackle a problem focuses on the abstraction you limit yourself on. Which guides discovery of relationships, before a solution.

69 sats \ 1 reply \ @beorange 12 Nov 2023

Interesting question.

Perhaps "Internet History" to better contextualize "modern" tools and practices, so younger generations can critically think about why/how things work and how things are done today.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 13 Nov 2023

We’re gonna need a lot of new courses like this since the internet came around

43 sats \ 1 reply \ @fred 13 Nov 2023

How to master love making because that's a field that isn't really looked into

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 13 Nov 2023

Ser post the course videos on SN I’m sure they’ll be a smash hit!

43 sats \ 1 reply \ @SteveZissou 13 Nov 2023

Compassion 101

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 13 Nov 2023

It’s becoming an increasingly important course to teach

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @adexmakai4211 13 Nov 2023

Honestly I will teach engineering mathematics.

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @lightwalker 13 Nov 2023

"Natural Law"

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 13 Nov 2023

How to teach yourself anything

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 13 Nov 2023

“internet 101”

42 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 13 Nov 2023

Small Business School because an MBA is completely useless for a small business owner.

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @birdeye21 OP 13 Nov 2023

Unironically saw someone flaunting their MBA status on their license plate the other day…

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 13 Nov 2023

*Reposting reply because somehow I hit reply to the wrong comment the first time so deleted that one and reposting to the correct one.

Some years ago I tried to give advice to a friend's cousin when she was starting her own business. She pretty much told me "I have an MBA from a prestigious business school so thanks but no thanks". 6 months later she had burned through a fairly substantial bank loan. Her business had failed and she took a marketing manager job at a big company, meanwhile my business was better than ever reaching 1M in annual revenue for the first time.

There is a lesson there.

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @Nuttall 13 Nov 2023

Media Deconstruction

42 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 13 Nov 2023

I was asked this question many times when I was on the academic job market. My answer was History of Economic Thought or whatever course your department needs someone to teach. I didn't get many of those job offers.