How Do I Teach These Kids?!

Do the schools that we have designed best suit the world we are entering into? Has the old industrial form of education that our current system is based upon become obsolete? How can schools be designed to prepare young people for a changing world with increased needs for circular and systems thinking along with skills for a future that will be ver... See more

Assuming that schools need to exist, the curriculum should not be static (i.e. should be updated in real-time) given the increasing dynamism and complexity in the world. Perhaps this is another reason to promote self-directed learning.

Thus, this all begs the question, do modern schools actually build knowledge and capacity for all, or do they just reinforce old ideas of how industrial needs are met with a workforce? If schools are, at their fundamental level, designed to create the workers of the future, why are we still teaching siloed skills of the industrial age, when we have... See more