If you don't think the education system is broken, read these 10 tweets
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How did we conclude that the best way to prepare kids for the future is to cluster them into a setting where they are organized by age, into grades, and forced to learn the same things, at the same time and pace, 7 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 12 + years? @anafabrega11
This is sad, but most kids are preparing for jobs that will be irrelevant in the future. - @vladstan
Children are quite literally the future.
We don’t take them seriously but we also don’t let them be kids—an unfortunate and unproductive middle ground. - @julianweisser
We don’t take them seriously but we also don’t let them be kids—an unfortunate and unproductive middle ground. - @julianweisser
We've been conditioned to believe that kids are only capable of cognitive development at roughly the pace of a standard K-12 education. This myth is relatively new — it's only been around for the last ~80 years — and we'll soon leave it behind us. - @delk
Homeschooling showed me you can teach the K-5 math curriculum to a 6 year old in six weeks with 1 hour of instruction per day - @wesyang.
Our K-12 education system offers few opportunities for students to develop critical thinking skills. And this won’t change until teachers give kids more autonomy by empowering them with self-run projects. - @EstherWojcicki
Test scores are data. A student’s digital portfolio is evidence. The first is a snapshot; the second is a movie. Both tell us something. But the latter is actually more reliable, though it requires collective human judgement, rather than a computer, to acccess @DrTonyWagner
Self-directed learning is the North Star of education. The goal of the educational process is to produce self-directed, life-long learners. - @gschoeniger
Considering the impact of decisions to shape our lives, it is remarkable we spend so little time in school preparing kids to make good ones. - @chrismanfrank
The education industry is stuck optimizing a broken system. We can’t incrementally innovate our way out of this hole. - @gw_smiles
Schools are doing a terrible job of preparing kids for the future. Follow me to read about reinventing education.
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The higher the number of people who think the education system is flawed, the faster we’ll fix it.
The higher the number of people who think the education system is flawed, the faster we’ll fix it.
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