Pleasant coincidence: I’ve had exactly the same thoughts and have been communicating them to some heads of education in my old school. I doubt they’re going to go for it; also, I’d rather become a stronger rationalist first before I evangelize certain aspects of Less Wrong.
The IB can seem quite bureaucratic at times. At least, they try to be. My understanding is that teachers go through a collective standardization process via IB-led conferences. It’s not very effective. At my school, there were four ToK teachers who taught four wildly different curricula, and it reflected in our grades. It helps to have a teacher who really gets what it’s all about as they’d be more open to getting material from Less Wrong.
Contacting the IB themselves can feel like a pipdream; but, since they really have no way of enforcing curricula content on the teacher level (at least in my school) then it’s the teachers that may need convincing more than their superiors.
Element of note: ToK did suck. The class I was in contained more opinion voicing rather than analyzing, and a majority found it painful, or didn’t say anything at all.
Pleasant coincidence: I’ve had exactly the same thoughts and have been communicating them to some heads of education in my old school. I doubt they’re going to go for it; also, I’d rather become a stronger rationalist first before I evangelize certain aspects of Less Wrong.
The IB can seem quite bureaucratic at times. At least, they try to be. My understanding is that teachers go through a collective standardization process via IB-led conferences. It’s not very effective. At my school, there were four ToK teachers who taught four wildly different curricula, and it reflected in our grades. It helps to have a teacher who really gets what it’s all about as they’d be more open to getting material from Less Wrong.
Contacting the IB themselves can feel like a pipdream; but, since they really have no way of enforcing curricula content on the teacher level (at least in my school) then it’s the teachers that may need convincing more than their superiors.
Element of note: ToK did suck. The class I was in contained more opinion voicing rather than analyzing, and a majority found it painful, or didn’t say anything at all.