1. We need a revolution

2. ‘Children starting school will be retiring in
2070. Nobody has a clue what the world
will look like in 5 years' time. And yet we're
meant to be educating them for it.’

3. ‘There were no public systems of education
really before the 19th century. They all
came into being to meet the needs of
industrialism.’

4. ‘We have built our education systems on the model of fast food.
You know there are two models (…) One is fast food, where
everything is standardized. The other are things like Zagat and
Michelin restaurants, where everything is not standardized,
they're customized to local circumstances. And we have sold
ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's
impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is
depleting our physical bodies.’

5. One of the first messages you have to tell
in Education is ‘you are unique’.
Think about it: the economy calls for massive standardization
while real Education celebrates and encourages diversity.

6. It's about customizing to your circumstances and
personalizing education to the people you're actually
teaching. And doing that, I think, is the answer to the future
because it's not about scaling a new solution; it's about
creating a movement in education in which people develop
their own solutions, but with external support based on a
personalized curriculum.

7. ‘Shift Happens’ on Slideshare.net

8. ‘Shift Happens’ on Slideshare.net

9. ‘Shift Happens’ on Slideshare.net

10. ‘In the next 30 years according to UNESCO,
more people worldwide will be graduating
through education than since the
beginning of history. Suddenly degrees
aren't worth anything.’

11. ‘Between the old and the new edition of the
French Academy Dictionary there is a distinction
of about 20,000 words. This is an
unprecedented situation. Most of the new
words are words of sciences and professions.’

12. ‘The today scientific revolution is huge and
deep: a science lecturer teaches today
around 70% of topics he did not learn
when he was himself at college.’

13. Reforming will not help. Our current model is
broken and not adapted to face issues of our
times. We need something radically new.

14. HOMEWORK
Imagine Education
and Courses as
LittleBits bricks
Video at:
http://littlebits.cc/about

15. Have a look at:
https://www.khanacademy.org/about

16. Have a look at:
http://duolingo.com/#/effectiveness-study