How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses | Wired Business | Wired.com - 6 views
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Decentralized systems have proven to be more productive and agile than rigid, top-down ones
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And yet the dominant model of public education is still fundamentally rooted in the industrial revolution that spawned it, when workplaces valued punctuality, regularity, attention, and silence above all else.
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We don’t openly profess those values nowadays, but our educational system—which routinely tests kids on their ability to recall information and demonstrate mastery of a narrow set of skills—doubles down on the view that students are material to be processed, programmed, and quality-tested. School administrators prepare curriculum standards and “pacing guides” that tell teachers what to teach each day. Legions of managers supervise everything that happens in the classroom; in 2010 only 50 percent of public school staff members in the US were teachers.
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Must. Read. Such a valuable lesson and another example of how we are doing it wrong.
