The aim is to start people thinking about those things we accept as part of schools, but no longer make sense
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Free Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare - 86 views
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MIT's opencourseware feels like the logical outgrowth of Illich's "learning webs" (from Deschooling essay)
13 Sacred Cows in Schools (and what to do about them) « Looking Up - 173 views
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schools need to change, and quickly. The shift from standardization and conformity has already begun, and schools are too slow to respond
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"Educators must look critically at the "sacred cows" in schools, the vestiges of industrial age thinking, and decide if they have any place in an education system that tries to foster independent thinking and individuality."
Free Choice Learning: What Teachers Can Learn From Museums - Getting Smart by Winifred ... - 2 views
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museums have figured out a thing or two about intrinsic motivation and free choice learning
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The main difference between the joy of learning in schools and museums is that, with the exception of school field trips, museums can’t force you to come, stay, or learn a thing.
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"What does a public school classroom have in common with a museum exhibition hall? The answer has nothing to do with oversized models or informative laminated labels - and everything to do with the joy of learning."
Between the By-Road and the Main Road: Bold Schools Part II: Teacher as Time Traveler - 12 views
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"Will Richardson's search for bold schools nudged my thinking too. In a former post, I wrote about the learner as knowmad, borrowing heavily from Pekka Ihanainen and John Moravec's concepts about knowmads. In this post I explore teacher as time traveler. In the the third post I will explore community as rhizome. All three are conditions present in my conception of bold schools. "
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