This blog post from teacher Jeremy Aldrich gives us a look at what it might be like if high schools were run more like Google. You know–make it a fantastic place in which to spend time. Offer free (good) food and let students spend 20 percent of their time on their own projects. Something along those lines.
You see, Google gets that people learn differently, work differently and have different times of day in which they are at their best. What if schools encouraged and supported self-learning and offered all kinds of perks to students so that they’d want to spend even more time at school working on their own projects? How would this change the way we view high school education and how would it prepare kids for the Real World?
And this: how might it catapult kids forward in terms of knowing what they love and being eager to learn more about it?
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October 5, 2007 at 3:26 pm
unlikely
the 20% time is a bit of a myth