Finnish system is praised extraordinarily highly for its global success, and yet students don’t work terribly hard, have many choices, use technology creatively, enjoy the integration of the arts, and learn in a culture which emphasizes depth over breadth and less is more.
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26 Amazing Facts About Finland's Unorthodox Education System - 3 views
Signing off: Finnish schools phase out handwriting classes | World news | The Guardian - 1 views
The Finland Phenomenon: Learning from the new Tony Wagner film | Connected Principals - 0 views
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Students are shown researching and collaborating online in their studies, and many classrooms are shown with a wide array of technological units, not just computers. Students use wikipedia and facebook when researching very current topics, and Wagner explains that there is a culture of trust that is extended to students in their technology usage.
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A particularly inspiring moment comes when Wagner reports stumbling across a project at one school, the “Innovation Camp,” in which teams of students are given 26 hours to come up with a new product or service.
In Finland, Learning Matters More Than Education - The Atlantic - 0 views
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Google has said that it has found no correlation between GPAs and test scores and employees who thrive, and therefore has stopped looking at those academic qualifications altogether.
Will · "We Prepare Children to Learn How to Learn" - 1 views
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“We prepare children to learn how to learn, not how to take a test,” said Pasi Sahlberg, a former math and physics teacher who is now in Finland’s Ministry of Education and Culture.
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seeing this “human aspect” of education?
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