1. Hacking Your
Education
Dale J.
Stephens

4. 5,700 janitors
with Ph.Ds in
North
America

5. hendrix college

7. picture of hackademic camp

9. Months 1-3: Co-living in San Francisco
Months 3-6: Foreign Journey
Months 6-9: Creative Project
Months 9-12: Apprenticeship

11. “Never let my schooling get in
the way of my education”
AGency
- Mark Twain

12. source: John Stephens

13. Homeschooling
≠
Unschooling

14. unschooling
AGency

16. summer hill
3 million copies 1960-1973

18. picture of book like THE HOMEWORK MYTH

19. Do we trust people’s innate
capacity to be curious?

25. Zinch LOGO

26. Unschooling > Public School

27. Define
my own
AGency
standards of excellence

29. Hendrix Logo

31. picture of school
I should also make it clear that we
unschoolers all at one time or another tried
out elements of school.

32. Accepted MOVIE cover

33. source: vgm8383

34. Pre-School/Kindergarden Grade School High School College The Rest of Your Life

37. What does
school
What does school provide?
provide?

38. source: qwrrty

39. What about the beer and girls?
source: Tyler Driscoll

40. I prefer guys and champagne.
source: Tyler Driscoll

41. The system we were supposed to trust
has proven itself untrustworthy.

42. Knowledge

43. Enter to Grow in Wisdom . . .
Enter to grow in wisdom . . .

45. 36%
showed no improvement

46. average debt upon graduation
Source: US Department of Education

47. credit card debt

48. one trillion dollars

50. This problem is not just an American one.

51. Videos lessons

52. 18 minute talks

53. videos are
booooooooooooring

54. videos are
passssssiiiiveeeeeee

55. Quora
quora - knowledge

56. open study

57. but the future isn’t here yet!

58. Why can’t I go down
to my local
Starbucks and meet
up with people who
are taking the same
online course as
me?

60. apprenticeship

62. what do you do with these skills when you acquire them?

63. Community

66. unadvertised job market

67. nick bilton

68. ?

70. ...

72. Signal

74. Stack Overflow

75. Text

77. Text

79. reputation graph

82. Education
is becoming
Education is Becoming Decentralized
decentralized

83. What does this mean for you?

84. Schools will be more unschooled

85. It starts here . . .
-student choice
-contextualizing learning
-self-evaluation
-student setting their own goals
-peer review boards
-mentorship
-students will become teachers
-end of age cohorts
-not time-driven
-school as community centers
-teachers as life coaches
. . . and ends up here

90. Old Model New Model
Unschooling
What does school provide?

91. Thank you for listening.
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