How can we rethink education?

How can we rethink education?

Question # 1 What if learning is happening anytime?

The digital generation is constantly exchanging messages, surfing the web, and openly participating in social networks.

https://www.td.org/Publications/Newsletters/Links/2015/05/Challenge-Your-Assumptions-About-Learners

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Question # 2 What if learning is happening anywhere?

Model # 1 The teaching factory The lecture hall / classroom are the primary physical environments for teaching.

Adapted from Lars Kolind: The Second Cycle, p. 155-156.

Model # 2 The learning environment Learning takes place in many different environments.

Places where learning might happen     

Where people live.

Where people work.

Where people eat.

Where people do sports.

Where people have a cup of coffee.

Adapted from http://www.theawl.com/2013/02/how-to-save-college http://www.slideshare.net/moravec/toward-society-30-a-new-paradigm-for-21st-century-education-presentation

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Question # 3 What if education is individualized?

Model # 1 The teaching factory Education is standardized.

Model # 2 The learning environment Education is individualized.

Ways of standardizing  Subjects.  Classes.  45-minute time slots.

Ways of individualizing  Choice of what to learn.  Choice of where to learn.  Choice of when to learn.

Adapted from Lars Kolind: The Second Cycle, p. 155-156.

We actually find that our students personalize their education much more than it might seem. They quite selectively access specific content and quite selectively do background readings.

Sebastian Thrun http://blog.ted.com/2014/01/28/in-conversation-salman-khan-sebastian-thrun-talk-online-education/

Study shows that students given 1-on-1 attention reliably perform two standard deviations better than their peers who stay in a regular classroom. http://m.wired.com/magazine/2011/07/ff_khan/all/1

We need to enhance every child's strengths - not fix their deficits.

Yong Zhao http://youtu.be/Wk--J3E8yqc Minute 8:02

Question # 4 What if students lead?

High accountability

Initiatives organized and led by students Low creativity

High creativity

Low accountability http://www.joebower.org/2010/06/relationship-between-accountability-and.html

The daily affairs of Sudbury Valley school are managed by the weekly school meeting, at which each student and staff member has one vote.

Rules of behavior, use of facilities, expenditures, staff hiring, and all the routines of running an institution are determined by debate and vote at the school meeting. http://youtu.be/jg9lf7wyQRo

You’ve got to let the students run the school.

Blair Sheppard

https://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Strategy/Strategic_Thinking/Reshaping_business_education_in_a_new_era_2500

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Question # 5 What if students are trusted?

http://www.joebower.org/2010/03/finlands-paradoxes.html

Some problems with standardized testing 1. Tests are timed, so students get nervous.

2. The point with tests is to make no mistakes – not learn from mistakes.

3. The results are neither used by students, nor by teachers. http://www.joebower.org/2010/04/sir-ken-robinson-takes-on-standardized.html#comments

Working intensity

Method B Create continuously, for example by using digital technologies.

Method A Reproduce knowledge at exams at the end of the year

Time

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Question # 6 What if teachers spend more time asking questions than talking / lecturing?

Lectures originate from the Middle Ages when only 1 person had a book, and the rest could not read.

Richard David Precht http://youtu.be/Gewb3-DUlJs 37:45

Research shows that lectures cannot be expected to lead to comprehension or application of knowledge and are inefficient in any combination with other teaching methods. http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsld/resources/20reasons.html

Research shows that lectures are very widely disliked and felt to be inefficient by students.

http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsld/resources/20reasons.html

Results of a wide range of studies show that lectures are ineffective for 1. changing attitudes or values, 2. inspiring interest in a subject, 3. teaching behavioural skills. http://www.tonybates.ca/2014/07/27/why-lectures-are-dead-or-soon-will-be/

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Question # 7 What if students are also teachers?

Have kids upload their writing, so that the entire class can read and comment on it.

Salman Khan http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/07/ff_khan/all/1

Peer grading works

http://youtu.be/RzkwtIMPkrs minute 18.

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Question # 8 What if there are no grades, degrees, or diplomas?

When people are not there yet, i.e. when they do not have x competencies yet, try giving them the grade "not yet�. https://youtu.be/Yl9TVbAal5s Minute 8:45

The transcript coming out of an engineering school should be the things that you have created along with some feedback from professors and peers.

Sal Khan http://youtu.be/cj1vGXWMMvs From 28:30.

Imagine a world where higher education doesn't end with a diploma, but starts at 18 and continues through life, as the world changes around us. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tara-lemmey/rethinking-higher-educati_b_387851.html

Question # 9 What if education = creating things?

We need to engage students in making things – making books, movies etc. and using all kinds of technologies / media in that process.

Yong Zhao http://youtu.be/Wk--J3E8yqc

Start finding ways to engage students in understanding real-world problems, and then support them in solving those problems. http://www.edutopia.org/blog/stop-start-continue-conceptual-meets-applied-david-hawley

More and more people are being hired on their work samples, on the projects they’ve done, the type of portfolios they’ve developed.

Sebastian Thrun

http://blog.ted.com/2014/01/28/in-conversation-salman-khan-sebastian-thrun-talk-online-education/

We recently hired two people and we didn’t even know what their degrees were, if they even had degrees.

We hired them because of the work they did on the computer science platform on Khan Academy.

Salman Khan http://blog.ted.com/2014/01/28/in-conversation-salman-khan-sebastian-thrun-talk-online-education/

A real business problem, such as running a cafĂŠ, would be an opportunity to bring in maths, nutrition, and communications. http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.ch/2015/03/finland-to-scrap-subject-teaching.html

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