Seattle Girls' School

News and happenings in education from the Head of School, Rafael del Castillo

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Is teaching going exponential?

Khan academy states that they are delivering over 42,000,000 lessons for free! How can independent schools turn the educational model upside down? Harnessing tools like these while maintaining human learning communities that will always provide the best environment for developing those 21st century skills like collaboration, critical thinking and problem-solving, and finding strategies, together, for deciphering and prioritizing those 42,000,000 lessons - part of the deluge of information that grows bigger every day. There was a time when lack of knowledge limited what students could learn. Today, making complex decisions on what to learn, when, and how are becoming more and more critical.

Check out Khan Academy:

MSNBC Video

Khan Academy Website

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