Post on 03-Jan-2016
Rethinking Education: learning from the extremes
18 November
ECNAIS, Warsaw
Chris Sigaloff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehDAP1OQ9Zw&feature=play
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• Learning is a collaborative activity• School as a support system• Public private partnership• Stimulating entrepreneurship• Focus on creating vs. consuming• Focus on learning vs. teaching• Teachers as learning facilitators assisted by
others• Connection tot real world questions• Problem based instruction• Peer to peer learning
Are our schools Future Proof?
Challenges:
If you do what you did
you get what you got….
Why it is difficult to renew our schools?
• Big conservative powers
• Stakes very high
• Focus on national curriculum and testing
• Limit to teacher-focused improvement strategies
• Top down way of innovation
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Learning from Extremes?
Social Entrepreneurs
Social entrepreneurs have always provided novel approaches that state systems have learned from. Social entrepreneurs often identify new needs, tools, and organizational models long before the state. That is why even in the developed world, education systems should learn from the transformational innovation being pioneered by social entrepreneurs working at the bottom of the pyramid.
The Hole in the Wall project
Community believes that learning stations are beneficial
Academic performance of the children improves
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Across the nation, children with access to Learning Station show improved academic
scores
Khan Academyhttp://www.khanacademy.org/video/khan-academy-on-the-gates-notes?playlist=Khan+Academy-Related+Talks+and+Interviews
Barefoot College
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/01/24/barefoot.college.india/index.html
Take away learnings
• Sustainable innovation• Room for ethics, values• Bottum up innovation• Social learning• Practice and theory• Pull not Push• Learning through• Learning as problem solving• Many places for learning• Learning without teachers• Learning from peers• Learning as production• Old and new technology
What is the role for the Independent Schools?
• Continue to be social entrepreneurs
• Posing the fundamental questions
• Being the extreme
• Showing what is possible
• Embracing the future