Chrisman Frank and Ana Lorena Fabrega: How Childhood Education Will Change

Kids should be taught there are infinite possibilities and to seek careers that don’t even exist yet – they don’t have to fit into what exists

Computers now do much of what kids are being taught to do in school

In traditional learning methods, some kids struggle to make the connection between what they learn and real-world problems

As a society, education is moving away from books and lectures and toward software and games

Kids are used to teachers having the answer, but in this method, the simulations have no right answers

Synthesis uses non-traditional methods – videogames – and designs the lessons not for content but for the experience

When kids play videogames, they practice teaching themselves – how to win – in the process they pick up new skills. Videogames teach problem solving.

Playing videogames helps to make kids resilient – they know they have another chance and will try again

Following a syllabus can be stifling because it doesn’t allow for students to go on a tangent of interest. A syllabus is a rigid road map for teaching and old-fashioned