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shared by António Teixeira on 12 Mar 10 - Cached

What does this remind of us of? The classroom, of course, and the entire structure of an educational system built for the industrial age, turning out students all the same, convincing them that there is one right answer
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But that is what education and media do: they validate.
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Do what you do best and link to the rest.
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We tell them our answers before they’ve asked the questions. We drill them and test them and tell them they’ve failed if they don’t regurgitate back our lectures as lessons learned. That is a system built for the industrial age, for the assembly line, stamping out everything the same: students as widgets, all the same.
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Google, he said, is looking for “non-routine problem-solving skills.”
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“In the real world,” he said, “the tests are all open book, and your success is inexorably determined by the lessons you glean glean from the free market.”
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We must stop our culture of standardized testing and standardized teaching
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We must stop looking at education as a product – in which we turn out every student giving the same answer – to a process, in which every student looks for new answers. Life is a beta.
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The school becomes not a factory but an incubator.
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