What Is School? - Bright - Medium - 1 views
Inside the School Silicon Valley Thinks Will Save Education | WIRED - 0 views
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But what are they betting on? AltSchool is a decidedly Bay Area experiment with an educational philosophy known as student-centered learning. The approach, which many schools have adopted, holds that kids should pursue their own interests, at their own pace. To that, however, AltSchool mixes in loads of technology to manage the chaos, and tops it all off with a staff of forward-thinking teachers set free to custom-teach to each student. The result, they fervently say, is a superior educational experience.
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heir own weekly “playlists,” queues of individual and group activities tailored to the specific strengths and weaknesses of each kid.
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This puts AltSchool at the intersection of two rapidly growing movements in education. Along one axis are the dozens of edtech startups building apps for schools; along the other are the dozens of progressive schools rallying around the increasingly popular concept of personalized education. The difference is: AltSchool is not just building apps or building schools. It’s doing both. In that way, AltSchools are more than just schools. They’re mini-research and development labs, where both teachers and engineers are diligently developing the formula for a 21st century education, all in hopes of applying that formula not only to other AltSchools, but to private, public, and charter schools across the country.
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The Past, Present and Future of School Design | EdSurge News - 0 views
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untapped opportunities involve further personalization of the curriculum, teaching, and assessment.
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Schools will no longer be just free-standing buildings but will be more integrated into community life.
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Segregating students by age will become less prevalent within learning spaces.
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Tweet from @akytle: @jbrettjacobsen @boadams1 Here's part 2 #mvdesign The Past, Present and Future of School Design https://t.co/TQe1qbMklL #edtech via @EdSurge HT @akytle
An Open Letter to Educators From TrueSchool Studio - The Teachers Guild - Medium - 0 views
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We support educators in this process to go from idea to impact, but we do not prescribe the solution — you are the source of ideas and leadership for transformative solutions.
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We believe the best ideas for the present and future of education will come from educators
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No policymaker or president is as powerful as a teacher when it comes to shaping the student experience.
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NAIS - The Learning Curve: How We Learn and Rethinking the Education Model - 0 views
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Unlike Semmelweis, whose theory about the need for cleanliness was rejected because it lacked the scientific support that Louis Pasteur’s germ theory would eventually provide, today we have ample research that suggests a mismatch between learners and schools—a mismatch between how people learn and how educators think they learn.
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emotion and cognition are intertwined and inseparable
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“Emotion is the rudder for thought,”
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Teaching Kids Design Thinking, So They Can Solve The World's Biggest Problems | Co.Desi... - 2 views
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We need to look at the world around us and consider what global problems modern society will need our children to solve.
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America needs massive change in our understanding of the learning experience, not simply in our exam results.
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to change the world, we need a generation of new minds equipped with new ways of thinking.
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This School Focuses On Teaching Students Happiness, Not Math - 0 views
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Rather than following a standard curriculum, students will decide what they want to learn themselves, and pursue learning through experience.
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The school will focus on teaching students how to learn about a subject or skill that interests them–and exposing them to a broad range of subjects–rather than imparting a particular set of information.
Meet the school with no classes, no classrooms and no curriculum - 0 views
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their entire approach is centred around projects. This is a school focused on learning, not teaching.
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Our teachers work five days, four days with kids, and on the fifth day I don’t allow them to work with kids, they have to observe other teachers and give them feedback.
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And if they do that enough I say ‘get out of the school’, go to a museum, go to a laboratory, go to a business and tell us what you found there.
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