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American Schools Are Training Kids for a World That Doesn’t Exist | WIRED
“Our kids learn within a system of education devised for a world that increasingly does not exist.”
HT @MeghanCureton & Greg Todd Jones (two colleagues in significantly different worlds who sent me the link at exactly the same time.)
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We “learn,” and after this we “do.” We go to school and then we go to work.
This approach does not map very well to personal and professional success in America today. Learning and doing have become inseparable in the face of conditions that invite us to discover.
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In such conditions the futures of law, medicine, philosophy, engineering, and agriculture – with just about every other field – are to be rediscovered.
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In this paragraph there are so many “project starters” that one could design an entire “curriculum” to weave them into an advanced problem solving component to school!
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Americans need to learn how to discover.
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Failing to create a new way of learning adapted to contemporary circumstances might be a national disaster.
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Against this arresting background, an exciting new kind of learning is taking place in America. Alternatively framed as maker classes, after-school innovation programs, and innovation prizes, these programs are frequently not framed as learning at all.
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Discovery has always provoked interest, but how one discovers may today interest us even more.
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in the course I teach, How to Create Things and Have Them Matter, students are asked to look, listen, and discover, using their own creative genius, while observing contemporary phenomena that matter today.
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Learning by an original and personal process of discovery is a trend on many US university campuses
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Success brings not just a good grade, or the financial reward of a prize. It brings the satisfaction that one can realize dreams, and thrive, in a world framed by major dramatic questions. And this fans the kind of passion that propels an innovator along a long creative career.
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Culture labs conduct or invite experiments in art and design to explore contemporary questions that seem hard or even impossible to address in more conventional science and engineering labs.
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The culture lab is the latest indication that learning is changing in America. It cannot happen too fast.
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we need to get smarter in ways that match the challenges we now face.
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Why Experts Reject Creativity – Atlantic Mobile
If you think of “teachers” as the “experts” in this piece, it provides an interesting reflection prompt about why we might struggle to innovate in school curricula, instructional methodology, etc. Are the schools most successful with innovating those schools with the highest concentration of “beginners minds”?
HT @MeghanCureton
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Brian Chesky of Airbnb, on Scratching the Itch to Create – NYTimes.com
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