I discovered a new blog today which has just joined 9rules: Newly Ancient. Newly Ancient is a blog by a high school freshmen called Arthus (I think that’s equivalent to Y10 in England & Wales) who writes about education, amongst other things. Arthus’ articles include things like 5 qualities which make a good teacher. It made me think.

Education is probably one of the industries where the last thing anyone thinks about is ‘customer satisfaction’. In the UK, teachers and schools are judged on statistics and I imagine it’s the same abroad. Sites like Newly Ancient provide feedback to teachers from their customer and will no doubt help them improve.

Other sites on the internet also try to help teachers improve their teaching based on feedback from their customers… albeit in a much more controversial manner. Rate my Teachers caused a minor storm in the UK last year when it came under fire from teaching unions, but perhaps if it were used correctly (which it isn’t, how does ‘Don’t really like him … He is very anoying’ help anyone?), it could actually help people’s educations.

Instead of ‘rate my teacher’, why not have a ‘rate your lesson’ site which isn’t personal to the teacher but where people can comment on certain trends and styles in education. This would provide a wealth of knowledge and feedback from the customer and I’m sure many new ideas.

As great as having a blog for educators by someone being educated is (or people being educated, as is the case with Students 2.0!), I doubt many educators (besides the most open-minded and innovative) would read it.