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Vittra Telefonplan is a special school in Sweden, where children don't learn in classrooms, aren't awarded grades and are free to work with their peers. 
"The principal is simple: people learn new skills because of the things they can do once they have that skill. The faster they get to do those things - even if they totally suck at them - the more likely to stay engaged with the learning process they are." 
For nearly two centuries, schools have been tasked with turning underage citizens into a singular workforce capable of tackling, and molding, tomorrow’s world. But here’s the thing: If the world we live in looks nothing like it did three decades ago, and even less like it will three decades hence, is it right that the classroom of today would be instantly recognizable to your mother, your mother’s mother, or your constantly networking, cell phone-obsessed daughter? 
It puts the rest of the world to shame.... 
We have found that experiential learning, and the active engagement of the student in the learning experience, is the most effective method for enabling students to develop the cognitive ambidexterity characteristic of an entrepreneurial leader... 
Wednesday we released the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Women’s Report on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C.
This report is the most comprehensive research on attitudes and behaviors of men and women entrepreneurs in the world. 
ONS study into the value of the nation's knowledge and skills shows a fall of £130bn in 2010, after steady growth since 2001...
"The amount of human capital we have each accumulated began to decline in 2007, despite the fact the number of students at university was steadily rising during this period." 
Women still start fewer businesses than men and are less likely to achieve business success, according to a comprehensive new international survey...
"One thing that is critical is women’s belief in their own capabilities is far lower than men’s. Less than half–47.7 percent–of women believe they are capable of starting a business, while well over half–62.1 percent–of men believe they are capable. That lack of confidence persists through all economies and cultures we studied." 
"...content based delivery of the curriculum, and its traditional compartmentalisation of subjects constrain the understanding of students, and fail to prepare them for a dynamic world of work and life that is constantly changing." 
"...it is the ability to work in a team, problem solve on the fly, and apply creative solutions that will be the common currency in the world of future work. Being able to think critically and create a professional network will be the core competencies of the 21st Century knowledge worker. Knowing how, or procedural knowledge will be a greater asset for most young people. You see, the world of work is in constant change, and that change is accelerating." Ken Robinson believes that everyone is born with extraordinary capability. So what happens to all that talent as we bump through life, getting by, but never realizing our true potential?
For most of us the problem isn’t that we aim too high and fail - it’s just the opposite - we aim too low and succeed. 
A new secondary schooling system should be based on universal access to four basics: |
"Our research and student interactions at Babson continually demonstrate that entrepreneurial leaders are cognitively ambidextrous. That is, entrepreneurial leaders use both a creation approach (“action learning”) and a prediction approach (“data analysis and modeling”) to shape opportunities." 
"There are new key trends that I see emerging in education enabled by advancing technology: namely decentralization and gamification. By understanding these trends, it is much easier to imagine why we won’t need teachers or why we can free up today’s teachers to be mentors and coaches." 
The five-stage design thinking process provides a useful set of tools for co-designing a curriculum with students, parents, colleagues and even the wider community. 
The 3 R’s of “reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic” were deemed essentials of mandatory public schooling in the 19th century Industrial Age where mass printing and machine-made paper and ink made books available to just about everyone for the first...
A student today needs a fourth R: Reading, 'riting, 'rithmetic and ’rithms, as in algorithms, or basic computational skills. By getting the youngest kids started on algorithmic or computational thinking, we give them the same tool of agency and being able to make (not just receive) digital content that the 3 R’s gave to Industrial Age learners. This animation was produced on behalf of the Australian delegation to the Global Education Leadership Programme (GELP). It makes the case for making big changes in education, to keep up with the big changes that are taking place in society. 
Edutopia community manager Betty Ray presents a simple yet elegant strategy to bring real-world thinking into the classroom.
Practitioners of design thinking have different steps depending on their needs:
1) Identify Opportunity 
I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity. 
Students From Babson, Olin & RISD Begin To Collaborate...Their joint hope was to create a course that would bring each school value, and so they’ve been having the students travel between the three different colleges once a week to show the working environments of each of the students’ teammates. This animation was produced on behalf of the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership, and aims at encouraging education leaders to develop a framework for teachers learning. 
"Institutional logic holds that companies are more than instruments for generating money; they are also vehicles for accomplishing societal purposes and for providing meaningful livelihoods for those who work in them. According to this school of thought, the value that a company creates should be measured not just in terms of short-term profits or paychecks but also in terms of how it sustains the conditions that allow it to flourish over time. These corporate leaders deliver more than just financial returns; they also build enduring institutions." 
"Here’s my theory – the primary driver for pedagogic change is something that has changed the behaviours of learners. independently of teachers, teaching and education – the internet. Let me elaborate….." 
A school board member takes versions of his state’s standardized tests in math and reading, and realizes something is really wrong with these high-stakes exams. |
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