This document discusses the future of education. It outlines some problems with the current education system such as low university completion rates, high costs, and lack of job preparation. It then discusses alternatives to traditional education like online learning and the Thiel fellowship. Specific topics that will be covered include accelerated learning, the flipped classroom/self-paced learning, the education landscape, arguments for and against online learning, and how data and techniques like spaced repetition can be used to improve learning.
13. Here’s what we’re covering today
• The problems with our current educational system
• Why do people get a degree?
• Alternatives to traditional education
• Arguments for and against online learning
• The education landscape
• Accelerated Learning
• The flipped classroom / self-paces learning
• And more!
14. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE
PROBLEMS WITH OUR CURRENT
EDUCATION SYSTEM?
34. Discussion
• Do you think that a bringing technology into a classroom can make a
classroom more “human”?
• Do you think that teachers should be replaced by computers?
37. “It takes 10,000 hours to
acquire a new skill.”
- K. Anders Ericsson
38.
39. Josh Kaufman’s Accelerated Learning model
1. Deconstruct the skill
2. Learn enough to self-correct
3. Remove practice barriers
4. Practice at least 20 hours
40. Group work
• Do you think that accelerated learning works?
• Have you ever learned a new skill quickly?
• If so, what was your approach? What worked and what didn’t?
64. 3 hearts was too hard (people dropped off and
never came back), 4 hearts just right (people
would proceed and come back and felt
challenged), 5 was too easy.
65. How do we keep people motivated
in an attention-economy?