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9 books every parent should read 👇
1. Free to Learn by Peter Gray
This book explores the importance of play in childhood development — and how to unlock and facilitate your kid’s instincts to play to foster their growth.
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2024 is a great year to be an education entrepreneur! I asked 10 recent podcast guests to share their startup advice for aspiring founders. Inspiring!
Thanks @MercedesG1228 @JoshCLC @Lyncaeus @Devan44551105 @ActonVenice and others not on X!
the74million.org/article/10-…
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Said it before but:
No possible way you can look around at the state of this planet without feeling entirely overwhelmed
We are dealing with ongoing, multi-pronged trauma on a global scale. Endless reasons to despair
Please know that your sadness and ANGER are real and valid
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Learning is not a thing confined within four school walls, on certain days of the week, exclusively with a teacher present.
It’s a way of life.
It’s the biggest disservice in the world to not teach our kids that.
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Schools preemptively banning Chat GPT tells you everything you need to know about how the system is not designed to prepare our children for the changing world, but to control the way they exist in it.
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I’m seeing some discouraging things around ChatGPT:
1.Schools blocking it
2. New apps promising to determine “cheating using ChatGPT
Can we move past surveillance and rethink what school means in an age of AI?
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1) The New Education System
Attention isn't the new currency.
Clear and relevant information is (because that's what holds attention).
It's called the Age Of Information for a reason.
Institutionalized education is not relevant, and only serves the employment system.
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"There are many capable people who seem to be failures at school simply because they can’t stand the control. This is why many entrepreneurs leave school or don’t get good grades-too busy doing things." - @flowidealism
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Education in America is going to look very different 10 years from now.
In some places, that future is already here - and there are some incredibly talented people building it.
Here are 10 of those people you should be following 👇
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When I advocate for children’s voices to be heard, I am told of the dire consequences that will follow if we allow children to make meaningful choices. ‘They’ll never do anything hard’ I’m told. Or ‘We’d have no doctors or engineers if we did that’. Here’s why that’s wrong.1/
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Former teachers make the best advocates for alternative education styles because they know the inside game and parents usually have no idea how bad it really is.
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Standardized curriculums taught on rigid schedules do not maximize learners’ potential.
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Yes! The good news is that many of these teachers are also leaving district classrooms to launch their own microschools. @JoshCLC is one of them. I shared his story here: forbes.com/sites/kerrymcdona…
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If and when a kid becomes interested in chemistry, or Russian literature, or higher math, they should throw themselves into it with abandon.
But until their natural curiosity has been awakened, and they have a purpose for learning, they shouldn't be forced.
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Note for parents: Just because a school says your child isn't "gifted" doesn't make it true.
Every kid has gifts and talents that will never show up on a standardized test.
Help your child find theirs.
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Imagine a world where we said, what’s going on with the children? So many of them are angry and distressed after school. So many of them are shut in their bedrooms. So many of them are anxious and unhappy. So many of them disillusioned at 15. 1;
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I want to give a plug to some of the many education entrepreneurs who are building these alternatives, including:
@LorianneBolotin
@AmarKumarEdu
@JennyMarkus_NYC
@jbuckland8
@MattBeaudreau
@ilainie
@JoshCLC
@flowidealism
@_cturner
@Bretigne
@kellysmithinaz
@raygirn