This document discusses the urgent need to reform education to better prepare children for the 21st-century economy, highlighting issues like student alienation and the inadequacy of traditional models designed for industrialization. It suggests that the current system categorizes students incorrectly and limits their potential, advocating for collaborative and continuous learning approaches. The conclusion emphasizes the significance of adapting education to modern needs, utilizing resources like MOOCs and other innovative platforms.

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2. Every country on earth is reforming education

3. How do we educate our children for the 21st economy?

4. We cannot anticipate what the world will be like in a week!

5. How do we educate and give a sense of local culture
without disconnecting from a global perspective?

6. There is a problem: millions of kids are being alienated at school

7. The old story : Work hard -> Do well -> College -> Nice job

8. Kids don’t believe that...

9. And they are right not to!

10. Better having a degree than not?

11. It’s just not that simple anymore

12. We should raise our standards about education

13. After all, why would we like to lower them?

14. The problem: our current system was conceived for a different age

15. Industrial revolution

16. Public education was a revolutionnary idea

17. Btw a lot of people sad it was impossible

18. The Enlightenment view of intelligence: Academics is the goal

19. Consequence?
Academic and non-academic people categorisation
Meaning smart vs non smart

20. Consequence: Many brilliant people think they are not

21. This model created lot of chaos: only a happy few benefit from it

22. Education is modeled in the interest of industrialisation

23. Look at the design of a typical school

24. School bells

25. Separate subjects

26. We still educate children by batches
Why do we still organize children by year of fabrication?

27. Divergent thinking

28. Education deteriorates it

29. Information changed

30. Collaboration & team working

31. The academic / non-academic distinction doesn’t make any sense

32. Great learning happens in groups: 42

33. MOOCs

34. Coursera
Coursera

35. Udacity
Udacity

36. Khan Academy

37. Ideas spread like never

38. TED.com
TED.com

39. brillant.org
Brilliant.org

40. Sugata Mitra’s Story

41. Clever
info on http://www.joelonsoftware.com/
mets le graph de traction?
Smart: Joel on software

42. Gamification of the learning

43. Codecademy
Codecademy

44. Education became a continuous process

45. Stackoverflow

46. The hacker mindset

47. Language learning is disrupted too

48. Fleex

49. NoRedink
NoRedInk

50. Conclusion