BrainCandy : BrainCandy October 1, 2008
If we need to educate the world? : If we need to educate the world?
Would you build schools? : Would you build schools? Limited Capacity
Limited Learning
Outdated from day one.
A learning model that has outlived its relevance.
Adopts a typical hierarchical model that inhibits progress and achievement.
Would you build jails? : Would you build jails? Notice the architectural similarity.
One door in, one door out?
Safe, secure.
Captive
Bigger Jails : Bigger Jails
look like bigger schools? : look like bigger schools?
We definitely need more, and bigger jails. : We definitely need more, and bigger jails. Do we need more and bigger schools? Does our level of incarceration correlate with the failure of an ever larger system of formalized/institutionalized learning?
What if we deliver Learning Opportunities to the Learner? : What if we deliver Learning Opportunities to the Learner? …said another way, “Enable Individual Pursuit of Learning.”
Mobile Learning Services : Mobile Learning Services Combines enterprise mobile platform (cell phone & 3G infrastructure)
Content that is user generated and from trusted brands
Links to a pedagogic/scientific community for continuous R&D Scales to massive populations
Easy to implement
Fair and equitable
Potentially levels, democratizes, the landscape of learning opportunities.
A broad mandate, easily funded by philanthropists and commercial interests alike.
Growth Metric : Growth Metric Each learner has their own ability level and uniqueness and we need to enable this capacity –and not suggest each is on the same developmental scale.