Parents do need to be more empowered in this process.
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Harish VenkatesanThe tools to do this are right in front of us; peer production, collaboration, social networking, web video, voip, open source, even game play. I think we can look at what has happened to the big media institutions over the past ten years as a guide to how to do this. We will use a "revolution of the ants" to take down our education institutions and replace them with something better. We all have to start participating and engaging in educating each other. I try to do this at times on this blog. If I know something about how to calculate a burn rate, read a term sheet, or manage a portfolio in a down market, I write about it on this blog. In turn, someone reads it and education happens. Ideally, all of this content, and the content being created by my colleagues in the venture capital business will get indexed, rated, and made available in something akin to a curriculum on venture capital. It will be peer produced, open sourced, and it will be better than any class in any MBA school in the country.
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Renée Fountain"In fact, I think games can play a big role in a new better form of education. The first time I really thought about this was when I read my frien
d Steven Johnson's book Everything Bad Is Good For You. Steven points out that game play is teaching our children skills they could never get in school."-
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MIT, my favorite education institution, has embraced it. They have open sourced over 1800 of their courses. You can study an MIT class for free on the Internet. I'd like to see all of the education institutions in this country contribute curriculum to such a system. And of course, get curriculum from such a system.
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We must move away from an economy based on scarcity and embrace an economy based on ubiquity in the age of the Internet.
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creativity to reign and walk away from the standardized model of education
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d Steven Johnson's book Everything Bad Is Good For You.
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Juliette LaMontagneI'm totally inspired by these posts: http://bit.ly/f9E16r & http://bit.ly/e4X3I2 by @FredWilson & @BradUSV, and especially the comments!
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You can commoditize curriculum but you cannot do that to teachers. I owe most of what I know to about a dozen amazing teachers I had over the 20 or so years between first grade and grad school. I remember most of them by name and I remember what they taught me. My high school calculus teacher inspired me to go MIT. My MIT Systems Design teacher inspired me to think about complexity differently. My Wharton Speculative Markets teacher got my head wrapped around markets and why and how they work. I would not be who I am without these special people. We need to massively increase the number of students these special people can reach and teach every day.
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Again, we can look to the lessons of the media business to think about how to do that. These amazing teachers are superstars who should be available online, via web video, to millions of people. They should not be stuck in a lecture hall teaching less than a hundred kids at a time. We must move away from an economy based on scarcity and embrace an economy based on ubiquity in the age of the Internet. The leading online education companies have been playing this game for years now. And they are good at it. My friend Jimmy runs several lines of business for Kaplan, one of the top online education companies. He told me about a teacher who runs one of his online CFA courses. This guy is a superstar. His courses are fun and engaging. Taking his course is like reading a great columnist or a wonderful book. You want to get back to it because its so engaging. These teachers can make a lot of money and they should. They are the best at what they do. But our education system is not set up like a star system. It should be.
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We also need to allow creativity to reign and walk away from the standardized model of education that we are stuck in. Sir Ken Robinson gave an amazing talk at Ted on this topic. It's 19 mins long so I can't imagine that everyone has time to watch it, but if you care about this issue, find some time in your day or week and watch this.
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Will RichardsonOne of the problems with the traditional school model of education is that the teachers are so uneven. My kids have amazing teachers who inspire them and push them to go beyond their perceived limits. I am so thankful for them. But they also have lazy tea
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One of the problems with the traditional school model of education is that the teachers are so uneven. My kids have amazing teachers who inspire them and push them to go beyond their perceived limits. I am so thankful for them. But they also have lazy teachers who bore them to death. We've all experienced this problem. I even had it at MIT and Wharton, two of the top schools in this country. We need some way for the kids and their parents to take control of who educates them.
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Add Sticky NoteThe existing large institutions in the world of education are the public and private schools, the colleges and universities, the testing institutions that inform them, and the unions and political system that support them. I want to help take all of them down and build something better in its place. I am not a fan of home schooling, but I understand it's appeal. I do not think I can teach my kids better than others. But I do think my kids and my wife and I need more choice of who educates them.
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Add Sticky NoteWe will use a "revolution of the ants" to take down our education institutions and replace them with something better. We all have to start participating and engaging in educating each other. I try to do this at times on this blog. If I know something about how to calculate a burn rate, read a term sheet, or manage a portfolio in a down market, I write about it on this blog. In turn, someone reads it and education happens. Ideally, all of this content, and the content being created by my colleagues in the venture capital business will get indexed, rated, and made available in something akin to a curriculum on venture capital. It will be peer produced, open sourced, and it will be better than any class in any MBA school in the country.
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Revolution of the ants as parental push for change. Interesting metaphor.
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These amazing teachers are superstars who should be available online, via web video, to millions of people. They should not be stuck in a lecture hall teaching less than a hundred kids at a time.
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Add Sticky NoteWe need a learning-centric educational system, not a teaching-centric one. The idea of "scaling up" superstar teachers to have one-way communication with more students presupposes that the problem is not enough students getting superstar teachers.
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This is an excellent point, but I wonder if they are mutually exclusive. Superstar teachers are most likely superstar learners.
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The way that the education system will improve is by working to customize the experience to the individual, and teaching the individuals how to customize on the fly! "Power to the people" is exactly right. The power is the ability to chose and the ability to know how to chose. Without the latter the former is worthless. (What good is the right to vote if you don't have the ability or freedom to study the issues and the candidates?)
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But a visit to wikipedia is all I need to refresh my mind and help my kids. Wikipedia is an amazing resource and yet the teachers in my kids' school deride it as "not reliable". Well I'll tell you this much, Wikipedia is more reliable than some of my kids' teachers.
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He told me about a teacher who runs one of his online CFA courses. This guy is a superstar. His courses are fun and engaging. Taking his course is like reading a great columnist or a wonderful book. You want to get back to it because its so engaging. These teachers can make a lot of money and they should. They are the best at what they do.
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Sir Ken Robinson gave an amazing talk at Ted on this topic.
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Martin LindnerI've come to believe that we need to completely reinvent the way we educate ourselves. And, of course, I believe that the Internet is the tool we can use to do that. ... The existing large institutions in the world of education are the public and private
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Again, we can look to the lessons of the media business to think about how to do that. These amazing teachers are superstars who should be available online, via web video, to millions of people. They should not be stuck in a lecture hall teaching less than a hundred kids at a time.
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