George Curious wrote a blog post in December of 2014 about comparing school vs learning. (Here is a link to that post https://georgecouros.ca/blog/archives/4974) In this post he explores some of the differences he sees between what happens in school vs what learning is. I found it very interesting to look at learning in this way. Many of the things he mentions are things we in Loudoun County are trying to encourage.
Things like learning is about: starting with a question, making your own connections, is personal.
In his book Innovator's Mindset Curious also challenges us to think about some additional things we can add to the list. Here are a few I came up with:
School is about teacher knowledge, Learning is about student knowledge
School focuses on the preparation for historical needs, Learning focuses on preparation for future needs.
School is about the teachers interests, Learning is about the students interests.
These ideas definitely excited me. I hope to be able to use some of this with the teachers I coach to open up some dialogue around what we are trying to do.
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