My Diigo 03/04/2012

• Stop Stealing Dreams (the entire manifesto on the web) - Stop Stealing Dreams

  • Here are a dozen ways school can be rethought:

     

    Homework during the day, lectures at night

     

    Open book, open note, all the time

     

    Access to any course, anywhere in the world

     

    Precise, focused instruction instead of mass, generalized instruction

     

    The end of multiple-choice exams

     

    Experience instead of test scores as a measure of achievement

     

    The end of compliance as an outcome

     

    Cooperation instead of isolation

     

    Amplification of outlying students, teachers, and ideas

     

    Transformation of the role of the teacher

     

    Lifelong learning, earlier work

     

  • the acquisition of knowledge has been forever transformed by the Internet. Often overlooked in the rush to waste time at Facebook and YouTube is the fact that the Internet is the most efficient and powerful information delivery system ever developed.
  • dreams are evanescent. They flicker long before they shine brightly. And when they’re flickering, it’s not particularly difficult for a parent or a teacher or a gang of peers to snuff them out.
  • dreams we need are self-reliant dreams.
  • next century offers fewer new long-lasting institutions (we’re seeing both organized religion and the base of industry fading away), to be replaced instead with micro-organizations, with individual leadership, with the leveraged work of a small innovative team changing things far more than it ever would have in the past.
  • “Make School Different.”

  • 22. The connection revolution is upon us

     

  • Connecting people to one another.

     

    Connecting seekers to data.

     

    Connecting businesses to each other.

     

    Connecting tribes of similarly minded individuals into larger, more effective organizations.

     

    Connecting machines to each other and creating value as a result.

  • Value is created by connecting buyers to sellers, producers to consumers, and the passionate to each other.
  • data means that data isn’t the valuable part; the processing is what matters
  • No competent doctor says, “I don’t know what to do, I’ll figure it out myself.” No academic researcher or steelworker or pilot works in complete isolation.

  • 25. What if we told students the truth?

     

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    • End of 1st reading 

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