Bryan Hassel and Ashley Williams from Public Impact joined me to discuss the Opportunity Culture model, which is transforming the traditional “one teacher, one classroom” approach.
Excellent conversation but even though I am an old guy I kept being struck as any student would be that was listening would claim, "Where I am in this conversation?" As you know I live in New Mexico so my view is basically from the bottom of the barrel but I feel it offers a perspective that is so far beyond most conceptual thought on education. All the talk I keep hearing is about teachers while leaving out the power of the student themself and not about stimulating the their innate capacity to create, learn, and progress at their rate and style and what happens when they are given agency in the process.
In order to hopefully stimulate dialogue and thought I use 3 resources that might fit into the state of self imposed illiteracy of our adult population. It just fascinates me that out of the hundreds of people I have suggested "Disrupting Class" to over the past dozen years from legislators to parents I have never found one that read it, acknowledged they read it and promoted it.
The 3 resources I start with are 1) Ken Robinson's animation that depicts our outdated educational process, 2) "Waiting For Superman", and 3) The documentary on High Tech High in San Diego "Most Likely to Succeed". My Daughter nephew attended it. Of course there is no Superman but the publics conception of education as an institution causes them to lean in the direction of a singular solution possibly with a new title. This highlights the failure in mass of a lack of critical thinking skills exacerbated by the failure to teach one to question the status quo.
I feel the challenge faced is trying to come up with an adult solution to a problem if asked, the students have an answer to. I feel we are trying to disrupt the institution of education without disrupting. I completely understand because a change required complexly unsettles is in a way that could be extremely destabilizing.
We are in the age personalization as Henry Ford discovered when he realized he could sell more cars if there were more colors than black.
Excellent conversation but even though I am an old guy I kept being struck as any student would be that was listening would claim, "Where I am in this conversation?" As you know I live in New Mexico so my view is basically from the bottom of the barrel but I feel it offers a perspective that is so far beyond most conceptual thought on education. All the talk I keep hearing is about teachers while leaving out the power of the student themself and not about stimulating the their innate capacity to create, learn, and progress at their rate and style and what happens when they are given agency in the process.
In order to hopefully stimulate dialogue and thought I use 3 resources that might fit into the state of self imposed illiteracy of our adult population. It just fascinates me that out of the hundreds of people I have suggested "Disrupting Class" to over the past dozen years from legislators to parents I have never found one that read it, acknowledged they read it and promoted it.
The 3 resources I start with are 1) Ken Robinson's animation that depicts our outdated educational process, 2) "Waiting For Superman", and 3) The documentary on High Tech High in San Diego "Most Likely to Succeed". My Daughter nephew attended it. Of course there is no Superman but the publics conception of education as an institution causes them to lean in the direction of a singular solution possibly with a new title. This highlights the failure in mass of a lack of critical thinking skills exacerbated by the failure to teach one to question the status quo.
I feel the challenge faced is trying to come up with an adult solution to a problem if asked, the students have an answer to. I feel we are trying to disrupt the institution of education without disrupting. I completely understand because a change required complexly unsettles is in a way that could be extremely destabilizing.
We are in the age personalization as Henry Ford discovered when he realized he could sell more cars if there were more colors than black.