Rethinking Education

s S Rebuilding Education for Rebuild21 in Copenhagen 31 May, 2012 by Jerry Michalski cc: by-nc-sa Inside Outside School Home School Unschool Learning Teacher vs teacher T t School vs school John Holt Dysfunctions Innovations Symptoms The Hidden Curriculum History "Cells and Bells" John Taylor Gatto Stay in the Class Where You Belong Only I Determine What Curriculum You Will Study Surrender Your Will to a Predestined Chain of Command Your Self-Respect Should Depend on an Observer's Measure of Your Worth Turn Off When I Tell You To You Are Being Watched We're teaching: Obedience Conformity Hierarchy Dependency Charter Schools Finland's focus on teachers The "Flipped Classroom" Project-Based Learning (PBL) Open Educational Resources (OER) We create artificial scarcity over and over Low morale No money Falling scores Poor citizens Apathy We applied the military and industrial models to education Scale Quality Growing Up Schools Two apologies: US perspective Blunt The Real World Free-Range Kids EduPunks Informal Learning Fear of: Uncompetitiveness Scale Chaos Thiel Fellowships Open Content Garage Biology Makers Astronomy Every PC is a... and much more Persistence DIY Agency Healing their curiosity Permission The Big Picture Tech is not the answer Consumerization Decentralization Dematerialization Meaning We're almost all connected now Opportunities Portfolios Thinking partners Peer review Certification Tutoring, coaching, mentoring TechShop Compulsory Education System Six-Lesson Schoolteacher The Underground History of American Education