How to Change the Way Kids Learn

Posted on 09. Aug, 2008 by reg in Education, Learning

Interesting article from Clayton Christensen and my friend Michael Horn:

This in particular was very interesting to me:

A group of 50 Minnesota teachers laid off from rural schools because of declining enrollments banded together in 2004 to start an online charter school called Blue Sky. They each have the same number of students as they did before (150), but the teachers describe their bond with each student as far stronger and more nuanced. The students call or e-mail at all hours because they are taking courses at all hours. Online, each student is an individual. Even children who were formerly behavior problems in school seem to have shaped up. It’s hard to be a behavior problem in a class of one.

Bonus points (and maybe a T-shirt) for anyone who offers up in the comments the best answer for how that directly relates to this.

(Props to Sundeep for the tip.)

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Both the article and the video describe the tiny beginnings, the 'seed', to something that has the real potential to revolutionize something that is currently taken for granted.

Huge credit to the 50 Minnesota teachers that turned the negative of being laid off into that 'seed'.

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