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Factory Model for Education No Longer Working

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Factory Model for Education No Longer Working

Here’s a quick summary of the article. This won’t be surprising if you’ve been reading on the subject, but it is a worthwhile reminder.

  • Industry has been implementing new technologies for 30-40 years
  • Education continues using systems created in the 1900s
  • Teaching the same subjects in the same way at the same pace to a roomful of children
  • In the 1900s, 17% knowledge workers were needed; today it’s 60%
  • Simply techno-cramming is not effective and not efficient without personalizing for individual learning,
  • Utah and Florida performance-based contracting examples are worth looking at:

Read the full article here.

David Foster Wallace Classic Commencement Address

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David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech

In 2005, writer David Foster Wallace stood before the graduates of Kenyon College and delivered a memorable and impactful commencement address.

The speech, later turned into a book titled This Is Water, has become a classic to many, up there with Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford address. Videogram company The Glossary has revived Wallace’s words with a video visualizing the concepts described by the writer, who died in 2008.

The Glossary describes the speech as “the most simple and elegant explanation of the real value of education.”