Wednesday, March 2, 2016

What Kind of Learning Might Prepare You for the Future? March 2, 2016

Focus: What will you need to learn for the future?

"To create the future, we must first imagine it." -- The XQ Institute

1. Warming up with a quick survey linked HERE, followed by a five-minute clip on American high schools

After (or during) the clip, please post a takeaway or question on today's blog from this clip.

2.  Discussing with your think tanks the video, the ideal school day, and the "XQ" factor

Topic #1: Discuss what you saw...did you see or hear anything you hadn't considered before? Questions? Takeaways? Opinions? 

Also, if you'd like, explore this website together about the Super School Project and the quality they define as "XQ."

WHAT IS XQ? (from https://xqsuperschool.org/about)

IQ: How We Think

It measures your cognitive capabilities.

EQ: How We Learn In The World
It measures the ability to connect, collaborate, and learn from others.

XQ: IQ + EQ + That Certain Something

XQ is the agile and flexible intelligence that prepares students for a more connected world, a rapidly changing future, and a lifetime of learning.

Topic #2: What do your ideal school days look like?  Share your thoughts from yesterday's/last night's writing.  Would your ideal school day develop "XQ"?

Topic #3: Look through your binders, folders, and/or Google folders. Find one task you've been given this semester in any class, and re-frame it a way that develops your "XQ," or the kind of learning you might need for the future.

Ex: Instead of a traditional speech with an outline, rubric, and step-by-step process, I gave you a problem to solve.
3. Creating a mini project that captures learning for the future

The problem: American high schools are failing to prepare their students for the future. 

Your task: create something that moves people--students, teachers, parents, administrators, and/or the community--to inspire others to rethink our school system.

Click HERE for the proposal and some space to brainstorm.
You will have Thursday, the long weekend, Monday, and Tuesday to work on this. They will be due Wednesday, March 9.

HW:
1. SYNTHESIS PARAGRAPHS DUE IN www.turnitin.com BY 3:00 PM TOMORROW.

2. Click HERE for the proposal; please finish by the end of class on Thursday.

81 comments:

  1. Schools have been putting teenagers into the motions, making them numb to the importance of education...

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  2. Why haven't we taken more steps to evolve our schools curriculum for todays needs rather than keeping it the same for the needs of the industrial revolution?

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    1. or why havent we changed the system to what we want to do in the future not just a standard curriculum

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  3. Why has it taken so long for someone to make a difference and challenge the system?

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    1. Well maybe someone thought of it, but they were too small to make their dream a reality. Now someone with billions of dollars with the same idea, is powerful enough to make this all a reality.

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  4. Even as America became more modernized, high schools continued to remain the same throughout the years but this is something that can be changed to better American education.

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  5. I agree that we should be able to have more freedom and not work from a packet and how we should be able to learn what we want to.

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  6. High school has been shifted to fit the modern world, but has stayed similar in most ways.

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  7. Life has changed drastically but schooling hasn't changed fast enough to keep pace.

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  8. My takeaway from this video was how she said that in the 1920's school was preparing people for working in the factories, and high school today is not doing anything different.

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  9. For kids that are our age, do you think that it is to late now to make a change that will effect out lives?

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    1. This is a great question, I think we are most definitely able to change, people are just scared to. Not only kids but also adults.

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    2. The project it to create one super school. Even if the school is successful it will take decades until high schools will change on a national level.

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  10. Why isn't this a bigger topic, high school students are the future of America.

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    1. I agree, this is a big deal, but yet this is the first time that I've heard about this.

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    2. I agree we need to talk about this more. How is the world ever going to change if we keep getting the same education as the generations before us even as the world and our futures are rapidly changing?

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  12. The US is now 27th in the world due to all of the student test scores on math.

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  13. Why haven't we taken more steps to evolve our schools curriculum for todays needs rather than keeping it the same for the needs of the industrial revolution?

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  14. Can these changes be applied in the physical model for school we have? Or would we have to scrap everything?

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    1. Honestly I think it would be a huge shift to change everything. Just think that they would only have the summer to change the school

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    2. The best way to go would be to add in new things, rather than take down an entire school. Making a school is $$$

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  15. Why haven't high schools changed in the past 100 years while everything else has?

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    1. I was wondering the same thing.

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    2. Since it worked in the past, we might think that it can still work today.

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  16. America's education system is falling behind, which explains why unemployment rates have been increasing.

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  17. I took away that school has been the same for 100 years now, prepping students for factory life. Now that technology and the work force has changed, high school needs to be changed too.

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  18. How could the revitalization of public high school restore the US economy?

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  19. Are these new schools going to have the same technology as the older schools did? Will there be more of this technology present in these new schools?

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  21. School started as a "pre-factory". Everything in this world has advanced except high schools. Not just the education system but as well as the buildings and learning devices.

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    1. I think if High schools want to prepare kids for adulthood, than they need to give them more freedom and help them find their place in the world. Keeping them locked up in a "factory" will not help them at all

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  22. If schools want to change High schools, they need to help teenagers open their minds and learn to work together and interact with what their minds are drawn to.

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  23. Why doesn't our government put in plans to educate us better instead of giving us more standardize tests?

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    1. Well standardized tests are to see where we stand in the education system. But they should create more innovative ideas of teaching

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    2. I feel like the government think schools are very high priority and spend money on other "more important" things.

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  24. One takeaway from this video, is that American High Schools are falling behind when the rest of the world is evolving and making strides towards improvement.

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  25. I have a strange feeling that students will find a way to complain about this new school as well.

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  26. schools have pounded people with so many subjects and work we don't realize the importance in taking the proper classes that prepare us for college.

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  27. Why hasn't America improved our school systems in over 100 years? I would assume that it would be a top priority considering that education is crucial to the survival and growth in a civilization.

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    1. Since it is taking kids off of their parents hands where they can still work, I believe that it has been proving to be a day care for those who can directly impact America in this given time.

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  28. Arapahoe needs one of those schools

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  29. It would be great to create all of these new schools, but it would cost more money than America has. There are hundreds of schools in every state and remaking each of them would cost millions. Where will we get the money to fund this new program?

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  30. Do we We need to increase the creativity in our schools? Especially with all the technology that we have now days?

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  31. Why hasn't high school changed for so long? If the environment around and inside a high school changed would less people drop out and increase the amount of educated people that go on to college?

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  32. We need to become more advanced in the schools with technology since the world is getting so advanced around us.

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  33. By just changing how we do function high school and we are tought, we can reduce the percentage of poverty and incarceration. Wow! Does this just apply to public schools or can it also be toward charter schools and private schools?

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  34. I have a strange feeling that students will find a way to complain about this new school as well.

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  35. schools have pounded people with so many subjects and work we don't realize the importance in taking the proper classes that prepare us for college.

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  36. Do we We need to increase the creativity in our schools? Especially with all the technology that we have now days?

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  37. Why has the American high school stayed behind so long?

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  38. I found it really interesting that schools were meant to prepare workers for factory life thats why everything is so bland.

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  39. Will some of these changes ever actually happen? Can they actually happen?

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  40. Will there ever be a high school that no one complains about?

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  41. School should help eveyone acheive personal life goals, we should be decisive with what we wanna do in life. If we knew future plans with life in highschool. The school could help you persue those goals

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  42. We should be using the technology we have today to embrace and enhance creativity.

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  43. I am shocked that with the invention of the space shuttle the high schools have stayed frozen in time.

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  44. It's strange that highschools haven't changed but the whole world has.

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  45. Why haven't school systems realized the ways they are doing things aren't as effective as they could be and they are the obstacles in front of a bad student becoming a great one?

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  46. Everybody knows that the public school system is flawed, and there are hundreds of these "be innovative and creative" motivational videos on the internet, but nothing has changed. Why?

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  47. I think we can learn things that will prepare us for college and our career, but it will take some changing of the curriculum.

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  48. Will a "super school" change the way teens feel about school?

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  49. I am curious on if technology is going to be good or bad in the schools. It is a double edged sword

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  50. Will people every stop thinking about money and how much things will cost and start thinking about how things can affect and benefit people.

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  51. In order to succeed, you need to be afraid to fail. The current school system has seemed to work, therefore, no one wants to put in the effort to make it better. It's mediocre and too many people are fine with that.

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  52. We should be doing things that will help us in the future and not memorizing a million things out of a textbook. Our creativity should be let out instead of kept in.

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  53. School have to do so many thing and the expectations for parents is I don't want to have schools look like because they wouldn't be the same. As we get more and more involved in technogly and it can we can do more things. We need to be educated in different ways. You should be able to go after what you want and not what someone says is the average.

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  54. Why has our learning always tried to make us think ethnically, creatively, and try to be at top, but never change what doesnt seem to be working? Why has our society moved forward but our schools were left behind?

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  55. This is a fine idea, but to actually change all the schools in america it would take lots of time and money we just don't have.

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  56. High schools are still like they were when they were founded and not much has changed over the years.

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  57. I took away that America needs to scrap the blueprint of how school is supposed to "develop" young minds by textbooks, tests, etc. and start to try a new way. A path where students are encouraged and excited to learn all the material that's required to know for the future. I think the reason as to why we haven't done this yet is because the government is afraid a bad outcome could occur if we experimented this. But they need to know that, sometimes in order to see progress or success, you have to do something crazy.

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  58. In order to succeed, you need to be afraid to fail. The current school system has seemed to work, therefore, no one wants to put in the effort to make it better. It's mediocre and too many people are fine with that.

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  59. Everything needs to change eventually and the same goes for high school. If we keep everything the same, people will just lose interest and stop caring.
    Not the best analogy,but when a new phone comes out, everyone wants it. Why? Because its new and refreshing.

    Same would go to high school. If we made the school different/new it could make students want to come to school just because its different and refreshing.

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  60. I think its not the matter of the students wanting the high school to change, it is more of the fact that the stuff that students, are being taught, it's stuff that we cant use in future careers.

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  61. Everything needs to change eventually and the same goes for high school. If we keep everything the same, people will just lose interest and stop caring.
    Not the best analogy,but when a new phone comes out, everyone wants it. Why? Because its new and refreshing.

    Same would go to high school. If we made the school different/new it could make students want to come to school just because its different and refreshing.

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  62. Something that I got from this is that they want to take a high school, and make it what the people want. What they want to learn, what they want to do, and see.

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  63. I am curious on if technology is going to be good or bad in the schools. It is a double edged sword

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  64. Something that I got from this is that they want to take a high school, and make it what the people want. What they want to learn, what they want to do, and see.

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