Here are some writing prompts related to school, education, learning, or the lack thereof.
As always, I provide the caveat that these prompts are deliberately terrible and are not meant to be used. If you use one and create something decent from it, consider it an accident gone gloriously and strangely right.
- In an effort to make the paperless office a reality, all faculty are given tablets. The tablets are made of stone and each comes with a chisel. Describe the reaction of the faculty.
- A student has a grand, sweeping vision on how her university can be better-managed in this highly competitive, technologically-challenging time we live in. It involves logrolling and lawn darts. Write the speech the student gives to the board assembled to hear this vision.
- The Department of Psychology runs an experiment in conjunction with the IT Department to determine how many superfluous confirmation prompts someone has to click through when trying to print a document before totally losing it. Write about the exciting results of the experiment.
- Rather than trying to fight students constantly checking Facebook in class, teachers instead embrace this by having a hologram of Mark Zuckerberg appear in classrooms. Write about Mark teaching students what’s really important. Share and like if you agree.
- It turns out that modeling a school on Lord of the Flies is actually a bad idea. Explain why in 500 words.