REDESIGNING

THE SCHOOL-

TO-WORK

TRANSITION

2. IDEATE

GOAL +50 IDEAS IDEA SELECTION

Generating with at least 50 ideas (or more) as possible for the problem statement I crafted last week.

Try to generate a diverse range of them, from simple ones to others that do not seem feasible, using questions such as:

What are the most obvious solutions for this problem?

What can you add, remove or modify from those initial solutions?

How would a 5-year-old child solve the problem?

How would you solve the problem if you had an unlimited budget?

How would you solve the problem without spending any money?

How would you solve this problem if you had control over the laws of nature?

After that, I select three ideas according to the following criteria:

i. The most practical idea

ii. The most disruptive idea

iii. My favourite idea

Remember, the problem I am solving is:

Professors need the educational system to change radically because it has failed.

Come on, come on1

GOAL +50 IDEAS IDEA SELECTION

1. Knock down the whole educational system and reset it. Start again.

2. Infuse all the knowledge in each student’s brain, regardless what universities and schools try to change/do, whatever they are

able to do.

3. Reduce the number of students in each class to create a closer teaching contact between teacher and student.

4. Conscience the private universities, colleges and schools to invest part of their Corporate Social Responsibility to afford the

tuition of those that can’t pay the taxes by themselves.

5. Increase the number of teachers, educators, professors in each classroom.

6. Lower the expectations and hopes we have got for the next generation’s education.

7. Create more free e-books and invite people to become self-taught.

8. Meditate seriously if we really need more education, because seeing what is happening in the world, we should ask ourselves

if we are using the brain or not.

9. Change the current teaching methods and evolve them according to what society requires.

10. Base the education in human values instead of giving it to the students and invite them to use it to fight against one another.

11. Lock all the educational centres and trust our children’s tuition to Sponge Bob and his soul mate Patrick Star. Oh, please come

on! Most probably, at the present day he is the richest cartoon! His school-to-work transition can’t be questioned, he has

succeeded!! And Patrick Star must be a brilliant Course Design Teacher assistant, absolutely. Just look at his floral greenish

clinging wacko pants: a guy that wears that trouser is a guy with judgement. Who would not want to have a teacher like him?

12. Create perfect teachers with the superhuman capacity of educating.

13. No, if we can create perfect teachers, we can directly create perfectly educated children who will make the school-to-work

transition without problems.

14. Establish annual conventions/congresses as a meeting point between companies and educational organizations in order to

form a united front that defines what the most appropriate tuition is.

15. Combine learning hours in the educational centres with non-remunerated work (some countries at the present day are doing it,

and alas, it works).

16. Retire all the teachers that are obsolete and replace them with newer ones that are more open-minded. Sometimes, the old

ones do not understand that some students want to combine work and studies.

17. Redefine what education and tuition mean.

18. Erase educational lobbies.

19. Or, have some interest in knowing what educational lobbies are trying to tell us.

20. Create a global non-profit non-remunerated supranational independent binding Advice Bureau that oversees the educational

system.

21. Change teachers’ mind to accept the social change. (Normally, only a very small per cent of teachers come from the industrial

sector. Most of them have been teaching all their life and obviously, they ignore what the world companies really need).

22. Re-establish again the labour role of Apprentice or Trainee. Most of the school-leavers think they are kind of higher beings that

know everything and deserve to become super manager directors at once. Sooner rather than later, they crash with a wall

called Reality and, alas, they have to work hard, fight, gain boss’ confidence, and society is a wicked villain and nobody loves

them, the system has failed, antiestablishmentarialism’s ghost is here, anarchy, world’s end is at hand and so on1

23. Establish again immediately home tuition. Why do we need schools and an education supervised by others at a thousand

miles away, far from home?

24. Create a Wi-Fi implant brain gadget to download the Knowledge from the internet. We could create iTunes applet for this,

called I-KnowIt, for instance. (What a cunning plan! Can I patent it? Just in case1)

25. Abolish any kind of private tuition and homogenize the education and its contents.

26. Avoid evaluating students, in case results obtained do not satisfy teachers’ curiosity. The less we know the better. Later, the

market labour will fix it.

27. Persistence, determination, motivation and self-confidence. Teach students how to use it.

28. Joint CASEL: Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning, a non-profit organization located in Chicago

pioneering in the use of SEL practices.

29. Emotional Intelligence and working teams. The sooner students learn the second and develop the first the better.

30. Social and Emotional Learning: not only we need education to work for a living, but also to learn to coexist and get along with.

31. Teach the educators what SEL is. Most of them do not know it, some even have never ever heard about it.

32. Recycle teachers’ methodologies. Most of them teach the same for many many years without changing anything at all. Same

lesson same year, and, same way of teaching: obviously, it is a Molotov cocktail. They are the first ones that find teaching

dead boring.

33. Stop teaching students to compete with their companions. Show them to work in teams instead.

34. Stop creating encyclopaedias with legs, they are useless and some of them are even oblivious because think they know

everything what is appallingly false. (Ignorance is insolent).

35. Reform the whole educational system, introducing new concepts and “debugging” the mistakes found through the experience.

36. Telly is the worst teacher: destroy all of them. Its reckless behaviour is appalling as well. And they cost an arm and a leg,

above all that plasma TVs1 So parents must work extra hours and can’t educate children suitably, what is getting worse the

situation. (I’m so brilliant1)

37. Teachers must have goals, say: I want to teach to improve society. In any other case, I have to do anything else but teaching.

(See the Finnish example: teachers are extremely well prepared and require the maximum mark in their exams to become

teachers. Not anyone can be teacher out there).

38. Some teachers are sort of psychopaths, yes, trust me; I do know what I’m talking about, snif... They destroy children that are

imaginative and inventive, boys and girls that dare to question everything, not because they are rebellious or rebels (although

some are, but not me1) but because they want to learn and understand quickly how the dots are connected. Psycho-teachers

punish children that are in fact more brilliant than they have ever been in their whole life. It is good to be sometimes childlike

and keep our imagination running free. We lose that capacity because some (e.g. psycho-teachers) taught us that it is useless

for surviving in this world as adults1 Abolish that kind of teachers, and prevent the system to hire more like them. Punish also

those that hired them in the past. Punish their families as well.

39. Trade Union which has to/should be in close contact with companies (not only with workers), could inform the educational

centres about what is being required and what will be required by companies in the next few years.

40. Lower the examinations standard. It will seem that students are smarter.

41. Make teachers aware that students need another kind of education. The current is obsolete.

42. Teachers should have been working at least 10 years by law before becoming teachers. So, they will know by themselves

what’s what in this world.

43. Companies should promote more scholarships in public educational centres to prepare directly the future workers for their

companies, such as BASF is doing in many countries.

44. Mainly, professors should be also a tutor to conduct his/her students all along the school-to-work transition.

45. Companies have to understand that school-leavers have knowledge they have to learn again everything when they start

working in their company. Even more if the boy/girl has never worked before.

46. Why don’t teachers study Design Action Thinking Lab at the University of Stanford thanks to Venture Lab?

47. Teachers can create a new way to educate, such as Edupunk methodology.

48. Teachers are too picky: situation is not that bad. If they try to work harder and make their work better the problem is solved.

49. Evaluate each student’s capacity before starting a new course: depending on the results aim each student in the best possible

direction depending on the results obtained. That kind of evaluation should be something a SWOT study.

50. Reduce the number of teaching hours, get to the point when teaching to let the students have a mini-job or, in some cases,

strengthen his/her knowledge in something by means of attending classes with a higher level.

GOAL +50 IDEAS IDEA SELECTION

Parametres Ideas

The most practical idea

46. Why don’t teachers study Design Action Thinking Lab at the University of Stanford thanks to

Venture Lab?

The most disruptive idea

11. Lock all the educational centres and trust our children’s tuition to Sponge Bob and his soul mate

Patrick Star. Oh, please come on! Most probably, at the present day he is the richest cartoon! His

school-to-work transition can’t be questioned, he has succeeded!! And Patrick Star must be a

brilliant Course Design Teacher assistant, absolutely. Just look at his floral greenish clinging wacko

pants: a guy that wears that trouser is a guy with judgement. Who would not want to have a teacher

like him?

My favourite idea

28. Joint CASEL: Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning, a non-profit

organization located in Chicago pioneering in the use of SEL practices.