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Traian BrumaMore free agent teachers and more free agent students will create tremendous liquidity in the learning market -- with the Internet serving as the matchmaker for this new marketplace of learning.
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Colin BrownDaniel Pink a big thinker on the impact of right brain thinkers on future economies.
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Countless studies, particularly those by University of Rochester psychologist Edward L. Deci, have shown that kids and adults alike -- in school, at work, at home -- lose the intrinsic motivation and the pure joy derived from learning and working when somebody takes away their sense of autonomy and instead imposes some external system of reward and punishment. Freedom isn't a detour from learning. It's the best pathway toward it.
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Why take that risk when, chances are, it won't make the grade?
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Self-defined success has no place in this regime.
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In the future, expect teens and their families to force an end to high school as we know it. Look for some of these changes to replace and augment traditional high schools with free-agent-style learning -- and to unschool the American teenager:
* A renaissance of apprenticeships.
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* A flowering of teenage entrepreneurship
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A greater diversity of academic courses
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* A boom in national service.
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* A backlash against standards
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In the 21st century, access to the Internet and to a network of smart colleagues will be the ticket to adult learning. Expect more of us to punch those tickets throughout our lives. Look for these early signs:
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* The devaluation of degrees
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* Older students
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* Free agent teaching.
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* Big trouble for elite colleges.
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* Learning groupies.
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Whenever I walk into a public school, I'm nearly toppled by a wave of nostalgia. Most schools I've visited in the 21st century look and feel exactly like the public schools I attended in the 1970s. The classrooms are the same size. The desks stand in those same rows. Bulletin boards preview the next national holiday. The hallways even smell the same. Sure, some classrooms might have a computer or two. But in most respects, the schools American children attend today seem indistinguishable from the ones their parents and grandparents attended.
At first, such déjà vu warmed my soul. But then I thought about it. How many other places look and feel exactly as they did 20, 30, or 40 years ago? Banks don't. Hospitals don't. Grocery stores don't. Maybe the sweet nostalgia I sniffed on those classroom visits was really the odor of stagnation. Since most other institutions in American society have changed dramatically in the past half-century, the stasis of schools is strange. And it's doubly peculiar because school itself is a modern invention, not something we inherited from antiquity.
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Harold JarcheFor example, how did anybody learn the Web? In 1993, it barely existed. By 1995, it was the foundation of dozens of new industries and an explosion of wealth. There weren't any college classes in Web programming, HTML coding, or Web page design in those e
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Edward L. Deci,
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Ludmilla Smirnovaindividualized education
change education future learning schools reform individualized
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