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Computers make children advance faster, but they also make them think like computers.

Chuck Klosterman • Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

Be the kind of person you want them to become. Monkey see, monkey do. Don’t be surprised if your children eat processed food and ask to buy things at every…

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Heather Heying • A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

SuccessMaker, an adaptive digital curriculum that provides a customized learning path and scaffolded feedback based on student performance. Teachers are also trained to use ST Math (ST is short for “Spatial-Temporal”), a software program developed by the MIND Research Institute.

Lance Izumi • Moonshots in Education: Launching Blended Learning in the Classroom

At some point in their teenage years—and sometimes earlier—the future geniuses would apprentice themselves intellectually to someone with exceptional capacity in their field.

Childhoods of Exceptional People

The rapid transition to remote schooling has supercharged trends in online learning — it’s possible that 3-5 years of behavior change has been condensed into a few short weeks. More independent/self-guided learning has required not only a re-thinking of curriculum but a shift in how students view their role in the learning experience. Creative resp... See more

Union Square Ventures (USV) • What We’re Learning About How We Learn | Union Square Ventures

Traditional public school isn't the best option for every student, but it is often the most affordable, reliable, and manageable for families with two working parents. It's possible the shift towards remote school during COVID-19 will accelerate student/parent propensity to look for affordable alternatives that provide a more tailored/exciting/impa... See more

Aashay Sanghvi • Five Startup Ideas

Technology is available to develop either independence and learning or bureaucracy and teaching.

Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)

Parents think they can hand children permanent confidence—like a gift—by praising their brains and talent. It doesn’t work, and in fact has the opposite effect. It makes children doubt themselves as soon as anything is hard or anything goes wrong. If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children t... See more

Carol Dweck • Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

prepare students with the skills and abilities necessary to