More and more I am realizing that there are an abundance of people out in the academia that need to spend some time sitting in career and technical (aka vocational aka workforce development aka career-technical) education classes. Once again as I read the articles this week I find myself going "well, duh" to some of these things. In CTE we've been doing this for the last 100 years or so in formal education programs and it's been working. Multimedia tools, in my opinion, are only making it easier to take our programs to the masses. Using web-based media as well as other methods (video, etc) we make the lessons we teach that much more "real" for a broader variety of students. I'm definitely a show-me type person and as such my classroom is a show-them classroom. This apprenticeship isn't anything new at all, as was pointed out in the articles and presentation, and it isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
Another thing- this approach is once again about teaching kids how to think, something that sadly is becoming less and less important as we continue to test and test....
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I actually thought of the subject you teach when reading this article. A friend of mine originally came to NCSU to major in a 4 yr program relating to Agriculture and Landscaping, but quickly realized the 2 yr program better met his needs because it put him in situations that he would actually be in and was more hands on instead of being behind a desk. Technical education classes are a wonderful thing for students who know office/desk work is not for them!
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