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It’s Not Your Grandfather’s Shop Class!

Posted on April 20, 2017

Because it is not your grandfather’s world anymore.

It’s theirs!

To thrive in their world, they need new skills to cope with changing technology.  

The challenge is not only learning new technology — anything they learn now  will be different in a few short years — it is learning how to change.  A challenge for students as well as the community. 

Some schools have adopted a program called STEM:  Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics.  It’s more than a few subjects, it’s a change in what we remember as a “classroom”and “teaching”. Fortunately, our own Pine Plains, NY, has an outstanding example that can be shown in action to the community.  That’s why I made this film! 

Enjoy!  And if you are in the PPCSD, be proud!


To watch in full screen, click the arrow box at the lower right corner of the video.

Feel free to use the section below for questions, discussion, and kudos.

 

4 thoughts on “It’s Not Your Grandfather’s Shop Class!”

  1. Elizabeth says:
    June 7, 2018 at 11:11 am

    Just wondering if the title could be, “It’s Not Your GrandPARENT’s Shop Class!”, since we are supporting girls as well as boys. I am a 58 year old female and did take shop class in middle school.

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    1. stan says:
      June 8, 2018 at 10:03 am

      An interesting point, Elizabeth. However, I chose the title as a play on “Not your grandfather’s Oldsmobile”. And if you have seen the video, that it makes the point very well. Not only are there females in the classes but the technology is quite different from the old “shop” courses that many people have experienced.

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  2. Jim Mara says:
    June 9, 2017 at 4:16 pm

    Awesome work, Stan! With the help of your video, we can see and hear how much we have to be proud of in our district and with our kids. You and they are truly bringing us into the 21st century.

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    1. stan says:
      June 9, 2017 at 4:39 pm

      Thanks, Jim. But we must remember: It takes a community….

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WHY THIS WEBSITE

I came to Pine Plains by choice, not by chance of birth.

But the small-town rural community I chose is changing. The farmers have, for the most part, sold to people from the city and fields are becoming lawns.

And, like the land, people, too, are becoming subdivided as difference breeds distance rather than discourse.

I have been making these videos to preserve and reconstitute what I can of a changing way of life and to share it with the community.

On a more personal level, I am making this website as a way of holding on to the reasons why I came here.

Stan Hirson

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