what's missing in ed reform is
lack of innovation
because of
lack of competition
ie: telecommunication,, gone from bulky landlines to 3g cell phones in 20 years, because of competition and innovation.
most innovative country...sweeden
main thing they have done - modular learning
government opened up free marketing for ed... for every child they have they get certain pay... and parents get to send kids wherever, and anyone can start a school with some basics.
now 10%??? go to these innovative schools
knowledge schools
when you join, you are allocated a personal advisor,
all various subjects are modulized... all online... with tests...
you study for modules however you want
can learn what you however, whenever you want, and test out whenever you want
they have decoupled what you learn and when and how you learn it and when you get assessed on it.
nothing to do with tech... (except the modules????)
at some point... there is going to be a completely free mod ed
so graham decided to build one...
one problem - hard for teachers to create high quality re-usable models..
creating the modules will take money (or kids making them?...)
maybe there's even a fundamentally better way ...
adventure learning
notion of a game in ed is misleading, most games are a way to practice what you learning in traditional setting
what if you came up with an adventure... you could learn all of math (you go chase)
tell me and i forget
teacher me and i remember
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