School 2.0 – creating the schools we want
Chris Lehman by Katie Morrow
- School 2.0 is progressive education with 21st century skills.
- Goal of education should be to create a citizen, not a workforce. Define the citizen that we want
- Let’s use great data, not test results, to make decisions
- Angelo Patri quote from A Schoolmaster of the Great City about what schools should be like – “What the school system needs to understand is that its strength lies, not in the strength of the central organization, but in the strength of the individual school, not in making one school like another, but in making each school a distinct unit. The need of the system is the preservation of its units, so that each school can keep itself alive, wide awake, responsive to its people, easily adaptable, the best of its kind.”
- Accountability is external, responsibility is internal
- We teach, we don’t deliver instruction/curriculum; “deliver” suggests that we outsource when we don’t or shouldn’t
- Schooling is for education, not training
- How will kids learn to live healthy lives if they never get the chance to play
- Technology does not invent, it transforms
- Social networking is as old as cave men but it’s different and transformed in the online sphere
- Schools should be inquiry driven, student centered, teacher-mentored, community-based, passionate, integrated, meta-cognitive
- Our use of technology must be smart, focused, thoughtful
- We must create thoughtful, wise, passionate and kind students with minds that are agile and flexible
- Ideas must live in practice – system and structure must be in place to support what you say you do
- What are you modelling and saying by your actions and relationships with colleagues?
- Are you going to control or support? You can get what you want or you can get so much more.
- Keep asking questions and don’t settle for easy answers
- What do you think is the link between inquiry and care – opens up the world and is the question we never know the answer to
- Way to think about problem solving -What is the worst consequence of your best idea
- How can you transform the life of a child if you are not willing to transform yourself?