Here is a slideshow that accompanied my presentation last evening. It was pretty well received and my colleagues came up with similar features in their visions.
Among the commonalities:
- each kid has a Personal Learning Device (PLD) with digital textbooks
- year-round learning
- ubiquitous video–surveillance and capturing the action for later retrieval
- an end to standardized tests–adoption of digital portfolio assessments
- massive professional development to get teachers up to date
- dynamic, personalized assessments
- business-school partnerships
- outdoors learning–community-school activities
- “blended learning” (a combination–any extent–of online with in-school learning)
- chairs/stools on wheels
- U-stations (three kids sit, a space between where a teacher can go when needed)
A great quotation attributed to John Dewey: “If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our students of tomorrow.”
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