from my Martian Math stash on Flickr
I’m not averse to this term “pipeline” with respect to education, even if some of the pipelines I view with disfavor, such as the so-called “school to prison” pipeline, whereby “school” becomes little more than an encounter with authority and a first chance to taste the limiting of options that goes with becoming powerless, pretty much by definition.
That’s not the pipeline I’m working on.
Having worked on this particular railroad a long time, you could say my “dark ride” is complete, or at least finished enough for one to avail oneself of.
Find an entry point and hop on. Ride this love boat through a tunnel of love.
By “dark ride” I don’t necessarily mean anything creepy; I’m using theme park jargon for the kind of ride that takes you through a sequence of experiences, usually indoors, usually riding in some kind of “gondola” or “car”, typically rail-guided.
Disney’s Wild Ride of Mr. Toad, and Pirates of the Caribbean come to mind.
Disney is famous for its highly engineered dark rides.
Treating a sequence of readings, YouTubes, web pages, hands on coding sessions, model making, maker spaces, 3D printing, playing with VR goggles, and so on, as a “ride” or even “work-study scenario” takes some ability to think metaphorically, and that we encourage.
Use that imagination of yours and let freedom ring.
