Thanks Darren, the momentum of this conversation has been building for a long time. I can across my Tony Wagner book yesterday Creating Innovators and realised this was published 10 years ago. The Susskind’s book “future of the professions” was 2017.
It is good there is momentum, people like yourself sharing their ideas and Educators and Headteachers using the ideas to make a real difference to our students education.
My question how do we scale without breaking an education system already tottering under the pressure to implement statutory requirements?
That's a very good question. I don't think this sort of curriculum reform will find its way into the establishment any time soon. There are too many vested interests in keeping the status quo. What I hope is that we see smaller, newer schools innovate with their curricula. Rashid and Latifa school in Dubai is a good example, and you have THINK Global School as well, who moved to a curriculum similar to this when they realised the IB didn't work for them. So it can be done. In time, however, I think that schools more broadly will have to adapt - but as I've been saying for more than two years, it will likely get worse before it gets better.
One solution is to build freedom learning spaces in every community around the world. So, as the education system from the last century collapses over the next 10 years, there is a place for kids to use and practice all the better learning systems. No kid can be forced in though, like the current system, the spaces are only there for kids who want to use the facility to learn anything they want.
Reminds me a lot of London Interdisciplinary School (LIS) and threshold concepts as well as Minerva. The key question here - how do we 1) motivate young people and 2) prepare them are the central questions of our book and I love this provocation. Thanks Darren.
Assuming that Curriculum X --I'd rather shorten it like CurX :)-- targets Year 9 and older, it will help raise skillful young people who can make connections with this interdisciplinary approach.
Call me obsessed, but with Flipped Learning taking the responsibility of basic content delivery, Curriculum X can target as young as Year 5. Once the students are mature enough to do the basics of reading, writing and numeracy, they are good to go.
Deliver the basic content via FL together with guidance and support, and then switch to Curriculum X at school.
Cool curriculum. It's great to see a focus on relevancy. " an entirely new approach to the delivery of a relevant education, one that is grounded in the outcomes the planet actually needs."
Thanks Darren, the momentum of this conversation has been building for a long time. I can across my Tony Wagner book yesterday Creating Innovators and realised this was published 10 years ago. The Susskind’s book “future of the professions” was 2017.
It is good there is momentum, people like yourself sharing their ideas and Educators and Headteachers using the ideas to make a real difference to our students education.
My question how do we scale without breaking an education system already tottering under the pressure to implement statutory requirements?
That's a very good question. I don't think this sort of curriculum reform will find its way into the establishment any time soon. There are too many vested interests in keeping the status quo. What I hope is that we see smaller, newer schools innovate with their curricula. Rashid and Latifa school in Dubai is a good example, and you have THINK Global School as well, who moved to a curriculum similar to this when they realised the IB didn't work for them. So it can be done. In time, however, I think that schools more broadly will have to adapt - but as I've been saying for more than two years, it will likely get worse before it gets better.
One solution is to build freedom learning spaces in every community around the world. So, as the education system from the last century collapses over the next 10 years, there is a place for kids to use and practice all the better learning systems. No kid can be forced in though, like the current system, the spaces are only there for kids who want to use the facility to learn anything they want.
Good question.
Reminds me a lot of London Interdisciplinary School (LIS) and threshold concepts as well as Minerva. The key question here - how do we 1) motivate young people and 2) prepare them are the central questions of our book and I love this provocation. Thanks Darren.
It definitely is a sound approach, I liked it.
Assuming that Curriculum X --I'd rather shorten it like CurX :)-- targets Year 9 and older, it will help raise skillful young people who can make connections with this interdisciplinary approach.
Call me obsessed, but with Flipped Learning taking the responsibility of basic content delivery, Curriculum X can target as young as Year 5. Once the students are mature enough to do the basics of reading, writing and numeracy, they are good to go.
Deliver the basic content via FL together with guidance and support, and then switch to Curriculum X at school.
Cool curriculum. It's great to see a focus on relevancy. " an entirely new approach to the delivery of a relevant education, one that is grounded in the outcomes the planet actually needs."
Fascinating and insightful idea!