#30 A Learner-Centered School of Future - A Thought Experiment
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We talk about the future of work in the HigherEd space - at conferences, at webinars, in papers. But we still follow Industrial Age Education system! How will we create leaders of mid 21st century tomorrow, with a 19th-century curriculum? The current factory-model, Industrial-Age school system has highly compartmentalized learning into subject areas, and students are expected to learn the same content in the same amount of time. The current school system strives for standardization and was not designed to meet individual learners’ needs. Rather it was designed to sort students into laborers and managers, and students are forced to move on with the rest of the class regardless of whether or not they have mastered the subject, and thus many students accumulate learning deficits and eventually
#30 A Learner-Centered School of Future - A Thought Experiment
#30 A Learner-Centered School of Future - A…
#30 A Learner-Centered School of Future - A Thought Experiment
We talk about the future of work in the HigherEd space - at conferences, at webinars, in papers. But we still follow Industrial Age Education system! How will we create leaders of mid 21st century tomorrow, with a 19th-century curriculum? The current factory-model, Industrial-Age school system has highly compartmentalized learning into subject areas, and students are expected to learn the same content in the same amount of time. The current school system strives for standardization and was not designed to meet individual learners’ needs. Rather it was designed to sort students into laborers and managers, and students are forced to move on with the rest of the class regardless of whether or not they have mastered the subject, and thus many students accumulate learning deficits and eventually