really Facebook? you have the money to fix education permanently worldwide; just build 100's of learn by doing courses offered online and let students decide which ones interest them ; You could easily get Harvard to stop requiring the 1892 curriculum they created (well really that the Romans created) and let kids learn what they want to learn; but instead you produce read and test - an idea that was dead by 1990 https://lnkd.in/ggrGebc
Brooklyn students hold walkout in protest of Facebook-designed online program
Without systematic exposure to concepts and skills not found in a child’s natural environment, how is a young child going to determine what he or she wants to learn? How can you know that you want to be a tugboat mechanic if you have never seen a tugboat?
what would a good online course look like? things to do in a field that interests you, mentored by experts here is a link to one that would work in H.S. https://www.xtolcorp.com/Software-Development it teaches kids to program; but it takes 6 months full time, so it doesn't fit in with the 5 courses at the same time model; I'd happily give it to schools for free but they don't seem to be able to let any kid do only one thing we have one in cyber security to; but same issue
.... I think this sentence says it all, "a web-based curriculum designed by Facebook engineers". So I'm curious now, who are these "Facebook engineers"?
By the way, that kid’s load is too heavy. No one should be taking biology and physics plus a full load in the other 1892 courses at the same time no matter how good they are at playing the traditional read and test game. It’s because Summit goes beyond read and test that it can frustrate students who have mastered the old system. They are now being measured on a post-1892 rubric, and, as I know from struggling to move the SEC from paper-based to data-based financial reporting, change can hurt.
Even a Single player or multiple player PC, console games can provide you incorporated info/subject topic in more involving manner, isn't it ?! Objective and task based real learning methods should be opted. Trained skilled adult supervision and guidance key also. Attention (by yoga meditation or similar physical-mental exercises) , concentration, then retention of lessons all plays important role so motivation, inspiration, especially incentive for kid or student is very crucial here. Maybe even VR, AR, MR will be utilized in coming days. Microsoft, Google, Facebook 🙏😊
The program actually has an interesting pre-Facebook history. https://www.summitlearning.org/about-us It’s potentially an intermediate step toward abandoning traditional 1892 curriculum and moving toward use of their Cognitive Skills Rubric, which is not based on the traditional disciplines. One wonders if a certain Harvard dropout has thought about this. The challenge is working successfully in the contemporary education culture and bureaucracy and under a legal structure that is even less conducive to change than, say, the structure that tried to protect the taxi industry. 30% of the work is supposed to be practice and test, not read and test, but the risk of mis-implementation of the system is high in traditional school cultures. 70% is project-based and done in ways superior to traditional models. It would be fascinating to get your take on the complete program since it’s been growing relatively quickly since its national recognition in 2010.
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My five points of the star covers what it should look like ...it requires student interaction between peers, teachers, community, technology , mr curriculum. It’s main concepts are global and project-based.