Throughout the 40-year information age, we continued to educate young people as if computers didn’t exist. We teach courses that focus on memorization. We teach long division and polynomial factorization as if they were important skills. We gave small problems with known answers when the real added value was solving big problems we had never […]
Key points A recent Gallup poll shows that students rate schools low on enthusiasm for learning, mental health support, career preparation, and personalization. In fact, more than 20 percent of students gave their schools a D or lower. That means at least one in five students is deeply dissatisfied with where they learn. In all […]
Formal learning is a humbling endeavor. As planners, designers, implementers, and general janitors of public and private educational systems, we have the insurmountable task of overcoming children’s natural tendency to play, rebel, and self-direct in the hopes of providing them with a “good education.” Reading, writing, arithmetic, etc. There is nothing wrong with this. It […]
