OK, do me a favor. Close your eyes and envision what school is typically like. Teacher at the front of the class droning on like the guy from Ferris Bueller. Students alternating attention between teacher, dooding, cell phones and each other. Got that image in your head? Great, now watch this video:
Blown away? I was. Look, I was introduced to “Power Teaching” 10 minutes ago so I can’t tell you whether it’s the best thing ever or not but what’s amazing to me is how different it is from how class is normally taught. Concepts like “Micro-lecture”, “Hands and eyes” and the theme of students teaching each other…pure genius.
I might be overreaching a bit here but I think it’s innovative stuff like Power Teaching that will pull our education system out of the long, abysmal slide it’s been on. And when we do that it’ll in turn help pull our economy out of the slide it has been on. But we have to think different. We have to, as Umair Haque likes to say, create real value.
That isn’t easy. In fact it’s actually one of the toughest things in the world. Because it require us to think. And to question how we’re currently do things. And to do things better. Much better.
Kudos to Power Teachers for doing something, anything, to break the crazy monotony that is traditional education. If you know of others doing similarly innovative stuff, put ‘em in the comments!
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