How can we rethink

education?

Question # 1

What if learning is happening anytime?

The digital generation is constantly exchanging messages, surfing the web, and openly participating in social networks.

https://www.td.org/Publications/Newsletters/Links/2015/05/Challenge-Your-Assumptions-About-Learners

Further inspiration

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

Question # 2

What if learning is happening anywhere?

Model # 1The teaching factory

Model # 2The learning environment

The lecture hall / classroom are the primary physical environments for teaching.

Learning takes place in many different environments.

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

Places where learning might happen

Where people live. Where people work. Where people eat. Where people do sports. Where people have a cup of coffee.

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

Further inspiration

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Learning-strategies-1487708

Question # 3

What ifeducation is individualized?

Model # 1The teaching factory

Model # 2The learning environment

Education is standardized.

Ways of standardizing

Subjects.

Classes.

45-minute time slots.

Education is individualized.

Ways of individualizing

Choice of what to learn.

Choice of where to learn.

Choice of when to learn.

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

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

Study shows that students given 1-on-1 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

Question # 4

What if students lead?

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

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

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

Further inspiration

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/What-is-good-leadership-1489536

Question # 5

What ifstudents are trusted?

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

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.

Further inspiration

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Trust-1957173

Question # 6

What if teachers spend more time asking questions

than talking / lecturing?

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

Research shows that lectures cannot be expected to lead to comprehension or application of knowledge and are inefficient in any combination with other teaching methods.

http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsld/resources/20reasons.html

Research shows that lectures are very widely disliked and felt to be inefficient by students.

http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsld/resources/20reasons.html

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/

Further inspiration

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/What-do-teachers-do-2178430

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

Further inspiration

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/How-do-we-give-and-receive-feedback-1761017

Question # 8

What if there areno grades, degrees,

or diplomas?

When people are not there yet, i.e. when they do not have x competencies yet, try

giving them the grade "not yet”.

https://youtu.be/Yl9TVbAal5sMinute 8:45

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

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 # 9

What ifeducation = creating things?

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

Start finding ways to engage students in

understanding real-world problems,

and then support them in solving those problems.

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/stop-start-continue-conceptual-meets-applied-david-hawley

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

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

http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.ch/2015/03/finland-to-scrap-subject-teaching.html

A real business problem, such as running a café, would be an opportunity to bring in maths, nutrition, and communications.

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