Week 14 – What
is school for? #SAVMP
Week 14’s assignment for
SAVMP was -- blog about some of the things that you do with your staff
to help understand where they are at, and how to move them forward.
Seth Godin’s “Stop Stealing Dreams” Ted Talk is one that I
hear people refer to quite frequently. I actually added it to my Favorites on
my YouTube Channel, and it is #36 in my Favorites playlist. This week’s SAVMP
posting suggested showing it to our faculty and having serious conversations
about …What is school for?
Godin makes some provocative statements in his Talk. For example,
he says things like: “…this factory we call school…textbooks make students hate
school, and…..there is zero value in memorizing anything.”
The last part of the video is where Seth shares his 8
answers to the question, “What is school for?”
1.
Homework during the day, lectures at night.
“Flipping the classroom” (Khan Academy) where students watch lectures at night and come to school to work out problems during the day with their teachers {coaches}.
2. Open book, open note all the time.
“There is zero value memorizing anything ever again. Anything that is worth memorizing is worth looking up.”
3. Access any course, anywhere, anytime in the world when you want to take it.
4. Precise focused education instead of mass batched stuff.
Seth really elaborates on this answer by adding:
“Flipping the classroom” (Khan Academy) where students watch lectures at night and come to school to work out problems during the day with their teachers {coaches}.
2. Open book, open note all the time.
“There is zero value memorizing anything ever again. Anything that is worth memorizing is worth looking up.”
3. Access any course, anywhere, anytime in the world when you want to take it.
4. Precise focused education instead of mass batched stuff.
Seth really elaborates on this answer by adding:
- No
more multiple choice exams: According to Seth Godin these were made
because they are easier to score, and he explains how the Number Two pencil became such a prominent part of education.
- Measure
experience, instead of test scores: “Experience is what we really
care about.”
- Cooperation
instead of isolation: Seth Godin remarks that when we finish school we go
out in the world to collaborate with others so we should value
collaboration and NOT isolation.
5. Teachers
will transform into coach(es).
6. Lifelong learning with work happening earlier in life.
7. Death of the “famous college”.
8. Teach students to create something interesting and ask if you need help.
6. Lifelong learning with work happening earlier in life.
7. Death of the “famous college”.
8. Teach students to create something interesting and ask if you need help.
He further elaborates about how
our industrial model is broken by sharing some MYTHS:
- Great
performance in school leads to happiness and success. If that’s not true,
we should stop telling ourselves it is.
- Great
parents have kids who produce great performance in school. If that’s not
true we should stop telling ourselves it is.
Mr. Godin states…”We don’t teach students to connect the dots,
but rather to collect dots and memorize facts." He also declares that
passion and insight are reality, while grades are an illusion. He
returns to the question “what is school for?” and if we don’t know, then we
should have a conversation about it.
This provocative video reminded
me of some videos I have shared with the faculty along the same lines:
For this #SAVMP BLOG
assignment, I would also like to share an upcoming video I will be sharing with
our faculty to help understand where they are at with student assessment and how
we will move forward:
Also, special thanks to the following BLOG for an awesome summary of Seth's Super 8 --
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