The Future Of Education

But first let’s get to
know each other

Tell a story of a
time when you really enjoyed learning something. How was the material delivered? How did it feel?

Mattan Griffel Chris Castiglione

We’re here to understand the
educational landscape

How will you leave better?

Here’s what we’re covering today
• The problems with our current educational system • Why do people get a degree? • Alternatives to traditional education • Arguments for and against online learning • The education landscape • Accelerated Learning • The flipped classroom / self-paces learning • And more!

WHAT ARE SOME OF THE
PROBLEMS WITH OUR CURRENT EDUCATION SYSTEM?

Low university completion

High cost

Lack of preparation for employment
/ job skills

The innovator’s dilemma in
education

“This is what people buy
when they’re buying a degree.” ! – Michael Staton, Learn Capital

THE EDUCATION LANDSCAPE

WHAT ARE SOME ALTERNATIVES TO
TRADITIONAL EDUCATION?

All online?

Thiel fellowship

DISCUSSION: WHY ARE PEOPLE CRITICAL
OF ONLINE LEARNING?

THE FLIPPED CLASSROOM
SELF-PACED LEARNING

Discussion • Do you think
that a bringing technology into a classroom can make a classroom more “human”? • Do you think that teachers should be replaced by computers?

ACCELERATED LEARNING

How long does it take
to learn a new skill?

“It takes 10,000 hours to
acquire a new skill.” - K. Anders Ericsson

Josh Kaufman’s Accelerated Learning model
1. Deconstruct the skill 2. Learn enough to self-correct 3. Remove practice barriers 4. Practice at least 20 hours

Group work • Do you
think that accelerated learning works? • Have you ever learned a new skill quickly? • If so, what was your approach? What worked and what didn’t?

LEARNING TECHNIQUE:
SPACED REPETITION

How could we use spaced
repetition

WHAT CAN EDUCATION DO WITH
DATA?

(Sal Khan talk)

Student completion

Student completion

MOTIVATION

The gap (Ira Glass)

Duolingo uses A/B testing and
is constantly experimenting with data so that they can “Learn how people Learn”

“The leader board increased retention
and vitality for us. “

3 hearts was too hard
(people dropped off and never came back), 4 hearts just right (people would proceed and come back and felt challenged), 5 was too easy.

How do we keep people
motivated in an attention-economy?

GOOD TEACHERS: CAN WE MAKE
MORE?

Experts have a hard time
externalizing what they’ve internalized

explaining Experts have a hard
time externalizing what they’ve internalized mastered

PROJECT-BASED LEARNING

“A student that can be
trained by a machine, should be.” ! “If students have interest, then education happens.” ! - Sugata Mitra