Pundits are always selling the latest and greatest “future of education.” But what if the answer is already in the room? In this illustrated video, I share some thoughts on the future of education. Enjoy this video? Please subscribe to the channel:
Here are my thoughts on the future of education. Sketched out by hand.
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The future of education can’t be found in a gadget or an app or a program or a product.
It doesn’t require a think tank full of pundits. No, the future of education can be found in your classroom. Your classroom is packed with creative potential. You have all the innovation you need right there in your room. You have the power to make it happen.
It’s what happens when you experiment. It’s what happens when you give your students voice and choice. It’s what happens when you abandon the scripted curriculum and take your students off-road in their learning. It’s what happens when you teach to your students rather than teaching to the test.
It’s what happens when you unleash the creative power of all of your students – when you make the bold decision to let them make things and design things and solve problems that they find relevant.
Sometimes it’s messy and even confusing. It often looks humble.
But understand this, that every time your students get the chance to be
authors, filmmakers, scientists, artists, and engineers.
You are planting the seeds for a future you could have never imagined on your own. And that right there is the beauty of creative classrooms. That’s the power of innovative teachers. And the truth is, that is why the future of education is you.
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music a bit too loud…but great content
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Great content!
Thank you very much. I like this video and I would like to upload it on my channel 🙇
Teachers of today are a much different from yesterday because of technology, modernization, and globalization. But both of them shared a common goal on how each learner will grow holistically and contribute meaningfully in building the future. They maybe different in era but teachers are teachers having a heart to give and learning to share. Being innovative is a great help to guide the new generation of learners on how they will use properly their learnings and talents they earned from their teachers. Applying all the learnings as a good human being in order to make a better world.
My best teaching time was when I was asked to work with Aboriginal kids who had dropped out of school and their mates at school too. On realising we were often in court supporting kids' friends, I suggested we do something to raise awareness. Those fantastic kids published a book of prisoners' stories and a book of poetry… If only we could
always teach like this. I thank my risk-taking principal for what my kids could achieve. Love your work John.
Thanksss awesome
Well Done. Could I translate this video into spanish? Please. To show some Friends
thats very inspiring.. can i request for something that teacher does using online to teach students.. since we are experiencing COVID19 pandemic all over the world.. thankyou Godbless..
In which program are you creating this awesome videos? Congrats!
I really looved it and I even left the page of the MOOC to leave you a word of admiration for the enthusiasm you let me feel withis video. Keep up ur good work.
Nice video
Great Words, Innovative Teachers. Hope to see more great content like this, whats your thought on technology based learning
Woooow, this video is very educative. Thank you
You should read Carole Richards’ whyyou should’nt send your child to school’.
Good luck to all teachers!!
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I hope to present at a conference in October; if I'm fortunate enough to be selected, I'd like to show your video at the start of my presentation. Like others who have commented, I find it inspirational in that it suggests to teachers that anything in possible- and that always gets folks thinking about what they can actually do with their students. But, the other thing I like most about your video, John, is that it refrains from being prescriptive. It allows for many interpretations of what teaching to one's students, rather than to the test, might look like. Jack
it's so inspiring!
Hello. I'm korean and high school student. It's good vedio. I want to change education of korea! So i will make youtube channel and post many issues! Can I translate your many vedios to koreans and post it on my youtube channel?
hi John tell me one thing that do you know when will the education system become digital and go paperless please reply
Excellent!
The future of education is You! I fully agree to that. The infrastructure around you must get future ready either.
And I think the future of education will be smart in terms of smart contracts built on a public ledger (blockchain).
So every academic step or achievement will be archived and recorded in your own unique smart contract.
Therefore your record will be transparent, decentralized and valid everywhere around the world.
Translations or notary documents will be absolet.
Employers, universities or any other institiution can just check all you have done and achieved by clicking on your contract address. This will contain all your data that you want to be shared pubicly.
There is no fraud, no paper work and no bias anymore. Because the information about you is clear, unique, understandable, trackable and VALID for once and all!
Actually there are people working on that technology.
Resource:
edgecoin.io
Hey. My favorite teacher. (Math) This teacher she showed me my future. I realized how nice she was.. she took me and showed me my potential of being a math teacher. I never thought of ever being a teacher when I get older but now I know. She planted a seed now I'm a growing tree and everyday my tree trunk grows sending out branches of knowledge and I'm almost to me leafs.
Thank you so much. You articulate a very complex feeling into a simple explanation. I am giving a talk soon, can I show them this video? I am living in Borneo at the moment and part of a movement to change their education system.
Thanks John! This is a great video to help us inspire other teachers to experiment with new approaches. We are trying to encourage teachers to set more empowering homeworks and give the students a choice.
You do such an amazing job with your videos, John! Where do you create them? Thank you for sharing such upbeat, positive messages with teachers.
What a whole bunch of nothing
Keep it up !!
I greatly respect the work of John Spencer and Geoerge Coouros. John has sparked creativity in my students who have seen his videos
I have been firsthand witness to the use of the internet and tablets in schools. It's a dream I had as a child to see educational institutions use technology to help enhance the way education is delivered, making it easier for a student to access up to date information, turn in assignments, communicate with teachers, communicate with other students, and turn in what could be their best work. Going off the map and learning hands on, will always be important, better known as student field trips. My love for children, young teens, and university students will remain consistent into my old age.
Which is why teachers need to have the power in the classroom they need to have the power to have the resources and the time to teach to their students
John, I really enjoyed your keynote at the M3 2016 Tech Conference. It is always nice to be "reassured" that we are on the right path. Thanks for your video's and the time you put into them.
That's a brilliant video shared by John Spencer. Innovative teachers and classrooms can really strike a chord in the minds of the young.
Awesome! It reminds me the power of an educator in a classroom to make shift happen. Thanks for the wonderful video.
Very inspirational John! In particular, I love the reminder that students need to think like filmmakers, artists, scientists, historians, etc…for true learning and innovation to happen. There is great power in that and it might help uncover passions in students that they didn't even know they had! Thanks!
Hey John! This is wonderful. My 9th and 10th graders are embarking on a 20time project this week for the rest of the year (we did it last year, so I'm eager to see what the 10th graders come up with their second time around). My own "20time" project is the creation of an elective we're calling "Nova-Lab" based upon my experiences in design thinking and the work of Don Wettrick in "Pure Genius." I loved your "Launch Cycle" from last week as it feeds into the "Moonshot"/Sky's the Limit ethos of this kind of learning. I talked to A.J. Julliani about what he's starting at his new district (a neighbor to mine) last year when I visited him. I appreciate the work you do and share it constantly. Thanks.
I love this. Reminds me of the "This will revolutionize education" video. However, I think technology and access to information can really amplify this and make those opportunities and voices even more powerful. Once again, nice job John.
Another one to be shared with fellow teachers … thanks!