Rethinking education

Rethinking education

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Question # 1

What if education is more focused on demand than on supply / curriculum?

https://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Strategy/Strategic_Thinking/Reshaping_business_education_in_a_new_era_2500

You’ve got to let the students run the school.

Blair Sheppard

The daily affairs of Sudbury Valley school are managed by the weekly school meeting, at which

each student and staff member has one vote.

Rules of behavior, use of facilities, expenditures, staff hiring, and all the routines of running an institution are determined by debate and vote at the school meeting.

http://youtu.be/jg9lf7wyQRo

High accountability

Low accountability

High creativity

Low creativity

http://www.joebower.org/2010/06/relationship-between-accountability-and.html

Initiatives organized and led by students

http://news.tes.co.uk/b/news/2014/11/05/39-we-are-consulting-early-years-kids-on-what-they-think-of-their-education-39-reveals-finnish-education-minister.aspx

Finnish educators asked 3-6 years old children to take photos of the places they hated and the places they loved.

The kids loved all the things that related to games and being physically active; places where they can hide. They hated rooms that are for calming down.

http://www.impactlab.net/2012/01/22/new-school-system-in-sweden-is-eliminating-classrooms-entirely/

Question # 2

What if education is more personalizedthan standardized?

We actually find that our students personalize their education much more than it might seem. They quite selectively access specific content and quite selectively do background readings.

http://blog.ted.com/2014/01/28/in-conversation-salman-khan-sebastian-thrun-talk-online-education/

Sebastian Thrun

Model # 1The teaching factory

Model # 2The learning environment

Education is standardized.

Ways of standardizing

Subjects.

Classes.

45-minute time slots.

Education is personalized.

Ways of personalizing

Choice of what to learn.

Choice of where to learn.

Choice of when to learn.

Adapted fromLars Kolind: The Second Cycle, p. 155-156.

Study shows that students given one-on-one attention reliably perform two standard

deviations better than their peers who stay in a regular classroom.

http://m.wired.com/magazine/2011/07/ff_khan/all/1

We need to enhance every child's

strengths - not fix their deficits.

http://youtu.be/Wk--J3E8yqcMinute 8:02

Yong Zhao

http://youtu.be/3_OTCrncgi0

Question # 3

What if education is done anytime rather than at a fixed time?

http://willthalheimer.typepad.com/files/how-much-do-people-forget-v12-14-2010-2.pdf

Further inspiration

http://www.slideshare.net/frankcalberg/11-advantages-of-using-a-blog-for-teaching

Question # 4

What if education is done in any place rather than

at a fixed place?

Places where learning might happen

Where people live, Where people work, and/or Where people have a cup of coffee or tea. On a variety of different social media.

Adapted fromhttp://www.theawl.com/2013/02/how-to-save-collegehttp://www.slideshare.net/moravec/toward-society-30-a-new-paradigm-for-21st-century-education-presentation

Model # 1The teaching factory

Model # 2The learning environment

There is a fixed place of education. The lecture hall / classroom are the primary physical environments for teaching.

Learning takes place in a variety of different environments.

To what extent is a school building needed?

Adapted fromLars Kolind: The Second Cycle, p. 155-156.

Question # 5

What if teachers ask more questions than talking?

Lectures originate from the Middle Ages when only 1 person had a book, and the rest could not read.

Richard David Prechthttp://youtu.be/Gewb3-DUlJs37:45

Results of a wide range of studies show that lectures are ineffective for1. changing attitudes or values,2. inspiring interest in a subject,3. teaching behavioural skills.

http://www.tonybates.ca/2014/07/27/why-lectures-are-dead-or-soon-will-be/

Question # 6

What if students are trusted more than

they are controlled?

1. Tests are timed, so students get nervous. 2. The point with tests is to make no mistakes

– not learn from mistakes.3. The results are neither used by students,

nor by teachers.

http://www.joebower.org/2010/04/sir-ken-robinson-takes-on-standardized.html#comments

Some problems with standardized testing

Method AReproduce knowledge at exams at the end of the year

Workingintensity

Time

Method BCreate continuously, for example by using digital technologies.

http://www.joebower.org/2010/03/finlands-paradoxes.html

Further inspiration

http://www.slideshare.net/frankcalberg/questions-to-discover-your-values

Question # 7

What if students are also teachers?

Have kids upload their writing, so that the entire class can read and comment on it.

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/07/ff_khan/all/1

Salman Khan

http://youtu.be/RzkwtIMPkrs minute 18.

Peer grading works

Question # 8

What if there wereno grades?

Alfie Kohn: The more you reward students for doing something, the more they tend to lose interest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQt-ZI58wpw

Question # 9

What if there wereno degrees or diplomas?

We recently hired two people and we didn’t even know what their degrees were, if they even had degrees.

We hired them because of the work they did on the computer science platform on Khan Academy.

http://blog.ted.com/2014/01/28/in-conversation-salman-khan-sebastian-thrun-talk-online-education/

Salman Khan

More and more people are being hired on their

work samples, on the projects they’ve

done, the type of portfolios they’ve developed.

http://blog.ted.com/2014/01/28/in-conversation-salman-khan-sebastian-thrun-talk-online-education/

Sebastian Thrun

Imagine a world where higher education doesn't end with a diploma, but starts at

18 and continues through life, as

the world changes around us.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tara-lemmey/rethinking-higher-educati_b_387851.html

Question # 10

What if learning was product oriented?

Yong Zhao

We need to engage students in

making things – making

books, movies etc. and using all kinds of technologies / media in that process.

http://youtu.be/Wk--J3E8yqc

The transcript coming out of an engineering school should be the things that you have created along with some feedback from professors and peers.

http://youtu.be/cj1vGXWMMvsFrom 28:30.

Sal Khan

Drop all rules and regulations that prevent you from creating tomorrow’s

learning environment.

SourceKolind, Lars: The Second Cycle, p. 159.

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