How Do I Teach These Kids?!

Thus, this all begs the question, do modern schools actually build knowledge and capacity for all, or do they just reinforce old ideas of how industrial needs are met with a workforce? If schools are, at their fundamental level, designed to create the workers of the future, why are we still teaching siloed skills of the industrial age, when we have... See more

“The schoolhouse I envision would be very different [from the conventional schools] in this regard. Because I would stress the connections and the continuity among concepts, there would be no brick walls between one “subject” and the next. Since learning would be self-paced and self-motivated, there would be no ticking clock telling students when t... See more

The thought is no longer “I will go to Coursera to learn how to do this”, but rather “I’ll do it and see how it goes.” This approach is the founding principle of hackers — intentional Googling and faithful reliance on crowd-sourced wisdom. A combination of Docs reading, repo forking, Figma board replicating, CodePen project remixing, and business c... See more