Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
ARTICLE: Experimental School Gets Rid of Classes, Teachers
Imagine a school where students select their own learning projects rather than having scheduled classes, where adults serve as guides and critics rather than teachers, where technology is employed as a learning infrastructure, where loners feel comfortable and collaboration is promoted, and where test performances are perfectly fine... more»
OPINION: Cave Man Didn’t Have Classrooms
In the beginning, there was action -- and learning was accomplished through sustained apprenticeships and deliberative practice. And now, of course, there is still action -- but we put a lot of energy into thinking it isn't the central thing... more»
The cave man’s mind was never prepared for, or concerned with, knowing. There was no test. There were no game shows. There was no Nobel Prize. There was action. The winner was the person who brought down the elk or buffalo. He didn’t have to know how to do it, at least not consciously. He had to be able to do it. What knowledge he had was unconscious. He may not have been able to say what he knew that helped him throw a rock straight. He could just do it. He practiced a lot.
INTERACTIVE MEDIA: What will shape the future of Education? The 2006-2016 Education Map
Here's a research-based interactive and participatory map of the predicted major influences on education over the coming decade... more»
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