The traditional education system is rooted in external assessment and extrinsic motivation
to perform well on exams and to do the best they can to have the highest rank in a school
to then get into the best university and then have the best job.
What's been lacking in the past, you know 50-100 years of schooling is that
intrinsic motivation of students pushing themselves to learn what they want to learn
and having the freedom to choose what they're learning is going to be about
and the opportunity to master those outcomes.
Out program the Change Maker curriculum is rooted in intrinsic motivation and
a mastery approach to assessment so students will have multiple rounds of feedback from experts and
their peers to gain skills to be better at the outcome.
It's not a one test, pass fail, you got an 87%, now it's time to move on.
It's really rooted in what does mastery look like in this task, how have you preformed now
how can you continually grow to master the task that you want to master.
One of the things that is changing in the digital age is this content mastery, and so
we're looking at mastery of skills because we find that they
translate better into the 21st century workplace.
With digital knowledge all around us, content mastery is something that could be
something of the past, unless your becoming a doctor or a lawyer.
Most real world application of knowledge comes in performance base
or mastery of skill based assessment.
So what we're saying is that with digital access to content, with google and the internet
constantly available, we want to make sure that students understand how to be
informationally literate to access that information, to understand how it's relevant in a 21st century context
but then also how to apply it.
That's the transformative nature of the new program, it's not just knowing the content
it's applying it to a bigger context or a more skill based assessment.
Whereas traditional schooling is really focused on content for the sake of content
we're focusing on content as a means to apply skills and different practices.
With our new program, the Change Maker Curriculum our goal is to one
cover the traditional content subjects that is going to make every university happy
and develop a system and a culture of academic rigor that is strong
We're also allowing for enough student differentiation
meaning students can find their own path through each module and then also through
personal projects find those things that they're very passionate about and give them the skills
and the scaffold and the confidence in themselves to support that endeavor.
So if I'm a fourteen year old student and I feel like I'm inclined to get into graphic design
the new program that we are designing allows 40% of our time dedicated to that student
to develop that craft, to make that their capstone project at the end of their time.
And to then possibly go on to start a business out of high school with their graphic design practice
become an app consultant and to work in any field because of their experiences in high school
So project base learning is one way that students can fuel their passions
and get high school credit for their passions rather than kind of towing the line of what traditional school says
and then trying in their tired moments of free time on the outside to develop passions
and to develop what they want to do in their life.
We are trying to kind of blend this social, emotional, leadership, character traits, passion driven
skill driven of how to accomplish your goals all into one education that is
place based that is global that is experiential that is surrounded by mentor in all of these fields
that can help students pursue whatever passion that they want, in a context of global travel and experience.
Our goal is to really make a curriculum that can live anywhere in the world and that
educators can adapt for their own place and so students can engage themselves in this type of learning
rather than a route content based, performance based assessment model.
I hope that the traditional school system will see the merit and the profound transformation
that happens in students when they learn in this way and I'm hoping that theirs kind of gonna be this
this common ground met between really experiential leaning and really content driven learning
because of the advances that information technology provide.
With google, which Khan Academy, with Crash course, with the Big History Project
with all these experts in the field creating accessible learning and data sharing to students
the sky is really the limit as to how we use that information
and provide a platform for students to jump off in whatever way they would like to.
In the U.S. especially becuase I find that the educational system to be a corporate endeavor,
an economic endeavor more then a learning endeavor, I'm hoping that we can see
more opportunities for students to curate their own path of what learning might look like
instead of jumping through the hoops and paying a bunch of money to get a PHD
which in my opinion is one way that we're keeping minority groups in the U.S. oppressed or outside of
the same opportunities that other subsects of American society that have access to.
Education shouldn't be for the rich and famous it shouldn't be if you can pay for a masters,
if you can pay for a PHD you get those, it should be merit based.
Hopefully through experiential learning, through hooking into students passions with
rigorous academic outcomes we'll see that learning comes in a variety of different forms and
expertise in subject areas can come in a variety of different forms not just
mastery of the traditional things that we've always used to asses what a really educated person is.
Following your passions and having the skills and the steps to get from passion to genius
or passion to artist or passion to expert those are open to a lot of people now
especially with mentor relationships and twitter and social networking
theirs so many opportunities to do incredible work that
schooling is not the only way to get from A to B.
Hopefully we can find this balance between traditional schooling and alternative schooling
where schooling as a whole can be engaging, meaningful, relevant to the real world
and involve some degree of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.
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