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SchoolReform
What ideas relating to school reform, curriculum, and accountability are being discussed at NECC06?
My idea:
- Ian Jukes and Barry Vercoe on Singapore education, need to encourage creativity and out of the box thinking (in their NECC live webcast)
- Jukes: It's about getting kids to think and collaborate, not using the technology
- David Thornburg: Thinks 1:1 is a myth and just a waypoint to somewhere else, he is not 1:1 now, he is something like 5:1, interoperability is the key
- Richard Flordia's book: "The Flight of the Creative Class" mentioned by David Thornburg, biggest workforce development issue is creativity
- Thornburg: Story of Brazilian design lab creating software for Motorola Razer phone: they can't find the people in the US with the requisite skills to develop it! NCLB is hurting this! It is not about a body of regurgitation model!
- Linux and 1 laptop movement is a social movement: When did joy leave education? Anything that brings back the fun will be great. The MFA will be the next MBA, I agree with Daniel Pink. My son is prof of fine arts and electrical engineering. - David Thornburg
- We need a planet filled with creative people, not just a nation, enjoy each other and our cultures like salad, not a homogenized puree (Thornburg)
- MIT Media lab lesson by Barry: Innovation occurs when there is a clash of ways of thinking
- Ian Jukes quotes from Neil Postman: tipping point is grade 3: elementary school students love school, secondary students love lunch -- elementary teachers teach kids, secondary kids teach content
- Thornburg: the rewriting of NCLB in a few years will be a great opportunity to change our educational focus at a high level
- Thornburg: We are human beings but we are also human "doings" and we need to do more stuff. Our schools should look more like "make" magazine
My idea:
- we don't need to worry about the global change, we need to focus on local changes - one conversation at a time
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