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How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses | Wired Business. He started by telling them that there were kids in other parts of the world who could memorize pi to hundreds of decimal points. They could write symphonies and build robots and airplanes. Most people wouldn't think that the students at José Urbina López could do those kinds of things. Kids just across the border in Brownsville, Texas, had laptops, high-speed Internet, and tutoring, while in Matamoros the students had intermittent electricity, few computers, limited Internet, and sometimes not enough to eat. "But you do have one thing that makes you the equal of any kid in the world," Juárez Correa said. He looked around the room. Paloma was silent, waiting to be told what to do. "So," Juárez Correa said, "what do you want to learn? " In 1999, Sugata Mitra was chief scientist at a company in New Delhi that trains software developers.

Over the years, Mitra got more ambitious. Over the next 75 days, the children worked out how to use the computer and began to learn. Keynote.

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Upper Ed Resources. Sweden’s Newest School System Has No Classrooms. There’s a whole new classroom model and it’s a sight to behold. The newest school system in Sweden look more like the hallways of Google or Pixar and less like a brick-and-mortar school you’d typically see. There are collaboration zones, houses-within-houses, and a slew of other features that are designed to foster “curiosity and creativity.”

That’s according to Vittra, which runs 30 schools in Sweden. Their most recent school, Telefonplan School (see photos below via Zilla Magazine) in Stockholm, could very well be the school of the future. Architect Rosan Bosch designed the school to encourage both independent and collaborative work such as group projects and PBL. Even the furniture is meant to get students learning. Bosch says each piece is meant to “aid students in engaging” while working. The un-schoolness doesn’t stop with the furniture and layout though.

Teenagers Inspiring Positive Change | TEDxNextGenerationAsheville. Finland's Education System Best In World.

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Our Dream School: A Net-Positive Campus for Today, A Model School for the Future. The Academy for Global Citizenship is an innovative Chicago Public Charter School, located on the Southwest side of Chicago, where access to quality public education is scarce. AGC is meeting an urgent demand: serving grades K-5, adding grade level every year, and serving a larger mission to influence the way our society educates future generations. Our approach, which incorporates sustainable living, student-led learning and local and global communities, has fostered dramatic change in our students, our community and in the Chicago Public School System. We are producing a replicable model for learning in the 21st century, including the construction of a net-positive energy campus. This campus will be the first of its kind in Illinois and will serve as a model for generations ahead. We have identified an 11 acre plot of land in our neighborhood to house a K-12 school building. Our Campaign This is where we need your help.

The Why Excited? Get the word out! Thank you! The AGC Family. Modern Learning Spaces. 10 Principles for the Future of Learning » Edurati Review. (This post, written by Jason Flom , is cross-posted on Ecology of Education .) I daydream the future of schooling will include a teacher like this . (It’s too late for me, I know, but I cross my fingers for the sake of my daughter.) Yoda aside, who better to daydream the future of learning with than the good folks at MIT? With minds on the front edge of theory, application, and innovation, they’ve shown prescient leadership in harnessing and shaping the emerging trends between technology, media, and learning.

Thanks to funding from the MacArthur Foundation , The MIT Press has published a series on digital media and learning (with open access electronic versions ), which they describe this way: The John D. and Catherine T. In their report, The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age , Cathy N. (The principles in bold are unedited. 1. Self-learning has bloomed; discovering online possibilities is a skill now developed from early childhood through advanced adult life. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Education In the 21st Century. The Future of Learning. Tinkering School: Think, Make, Tinker! Re-thinking School Architecture in the Age of ICT | A World Bank Blog on ICT use in Education. What will the school of the future look like? Most likely, it will largely look like the school of today -- but that doesn't mean it should. Few will deny that it will most likely, and increasingly, contain lots of technology.

Some may celebrate this fact, others may decry it, but this trend appears inexorable. To what extent will, or should, considerations around technology use influence the design of learning spaces going forward? Of course, with the continued rise of online 'virtual' education, some schools don't (or won't) look like traditional 'schools' at all. Let's leave aside the case of the 'virtual school' for a moment and assume that there will continue to be a need for a physical space at which students and educators will gather and interact. I regularly see presentations on 'the school or classroom of tomorrow'. Each year the World Bank co-sponsors a global symposium on ICT use in education with the government of Korea and other partners.

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