Here (below) he is at HGSE TIE. Kaplan was "iconoclastic" being that it gave people that traditionally have a chance at Ivy league schools. Kaplan was bought by the Washington Post and expanded to general education and tutoring children as well as certificate programs. Saxberg claims that students want to personalized learning that doesn't was time of seasoned 30 yr olds. Culture has chanced to make several careers the norm and we need to stop asking children, "what do you want to be," to "what things do you want to be." We have time in our lives, with the 10,000 (outliers) hours theory, for 7 'world class expertises' by the time we are 90, making us more and more individualized and special. Learners also want effective learning that prepares them for real world talents. Saxberg uses the example of nurses needing to be personable in their profession, but degree programs never emphasize the study of interpersonal relationships. The last thing Saxberg says about learners is that they want schools to teach lasting, life long learning.
Warns about the quality control when the scale of learning is exponentially uncontrollable. "immagine the worse professor you have ever had, now available to millions of people and young children in Mongolia"
Find good solutions first and then use the technolgoies to make them work. kurt van ling
Learning is Hidden
Learning is divided into facts, concepts and automation
Process- By getting the process right, the facts will be burned into memory.
motivation (starting persisting and putting in mental effort)- not just likeing but product. I MUST do this.
a. Problems with motivation-People don't value what they are doing, im no good at the topic, attribute to something else.
Often we confuse tests with skills ( make hypothesesis about what happens inside of head)
Check out Chris Dede and Joseph Blatt in the audience :)
Now here he is at TEDx San Fransisco. His first line slays me "So...We should blow up schools, right?"
Back to the Car metaphore. Who got you to point B when you left for point A. Experts employ their senses and automatically as we do for driving.
With the data of MOOKs we can learn more about education in 5 years than in the last 200 years. #BIGDATA
THE K12 Gym of the Mind (virtual homeschooling)
Here is the first of a six part series on youtube by Bror Saxberg. Very "edX-y" in that you can see the video lecture coaching he has recieved and production quality of the series. It's just a sales pitch but fun to rememeber: