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Education is a meaty space. Any meaningful changes in the space require close collaboration between different stakeholders.
At an @interintellect_ salon this weekend, @katrinadlc and I brought together diverse minds to examine education.
Here are my takeaways
At an @interintellect_ salon this weekend, @katrinadlc and I brought together diverse minds to examine education.
Here are my takeaways
1/ We need different metrics for different purposes of education e.g.
Vocational education: Rate of employment after graduation
Academia education: Rate of students involved in research, rate of students pursuing professorship
Casual education: Retention rate, referral rate
Vocational education: Rate of employment after graduation
Academia education: Rate of students involved in research, rate of students pursuing professorship
Casual education: Retention rate, referral rate
2/ Keep institutions accountable based on their core purpose, not every purpose.
Traditional education today is complex because we expect it to deliver more than a core purpose — from babysitting in K-12 to discovering new knowledge in higher education, on top of teaching.
Traditional education today is complex because we expect it to deliver more than a core purpose — from babysitting in K-12 to discovering new knowledge in higher education, on top of teaching.
3/ We need to focus more on unbundling traditional education, putting less on their plates, and find ways to seamlessly sync different components. Otherwise, students will end up breaking their banks e.g. some students need to pay $13K for bootcamps + $100K college tuition.
4/ The roles of teachers are being redefined. Before the Internet, teachers are one of the few sources of information students had, hence the greatest value teachers can provide was knowledge transmission. That's not true anymore.
5/ Today, knowledge is one search away. The most valuable role of teachers is no longer to transmit knowledge but to help students succeed based on their purposes of education. This may involve including more than one type of teacher in a classroom e.g. mentor, coach, lecturer.
6/ The pandemic surfaces the need for niche, interest-driven, cohort-based courses. We see new communities coming together online to bond over shared interests, find accountability partners, and fill in the extra time in their hands with learning.
7/ Building awareness of diverse definitions of success is crucial for alternative education. Parents, employers, and students need stories to justify the risk of taking a road less traveled.
A question by @shreyans___: "How can we make diverse success stories more available?"
A question by @shreyans___: "How can we make diverse success stories more available?"
8/ @TaraLifBaum’s work at @soraschools is a great example of creating under a rigid system. They take the states’ rigid K-12 requirements, break them into modular components, and create project-based courses that encourage students to learn by doing.
9/ Lastly, to improve education systemically, we need more spaces for different stakeholders of the education system — students, policymakers, technologists, educators — to come together and collaborate. If you’re interested in shaping this space together, please send me a DM.
10/ Here's the #salonshelf created from our conversation
11/ When asked "Who's hopeful for the future of education?"
Grateful for everyone who joined last night and for the @interintellect_ for creating this space for us to nerd out and jam on the topic that's near and dear to our hearts.
Grateful for everyone who joined last night and for the @interintellect_ for creating this space for us to nerd out and jam on the topic that's near and dear to our hearts.
