TEDxEastsidePrep - Shawn Cornally - The Future of Education Without Coercion

Shawn Cornally's tagline to his blog sums him up well: "Dealing with the fear of being a boring teacher." Clearly Shawn is successfully combating this fear. Blogging extensively and generating conversations among educators across the world, Shawn brings us some perspective on how the tools of today can be put to work in the classroom.

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[numernine9]

You all can get ready to kiss your teaching jobs goodbye. They will first get the cameras in the classroom with the teacher in control of it. Then in about 5 years they will take that control away from you and it will be there all the time watching your every move. Then about 5 years after that it will be used to evaluate your performance as a teacher. Then this evaluation will be the very evidence used against you to fire you. Its not about education or money, its about control. mind/prison

[Rachel Hearne]

To go even further you could suggest that instead of schools we have 'learning centres' where people of all ages could go. It could include the towns library, internet cafe etc. 'Teachers' would instead be 'knowledgeable people' in specific fields who the kids could turn to for advice or learning when they are stuck on their projects. Separate teachers or assessors can gather evidence of the child's learning and guide them towards activities or projects to fill holes in their knowledge

[carmen lund]

Love this! School could be so exciting if we could move on like this! I love the focus on creativity. I am an artist and teacher who was so bored in school and have vowed never to bore my students. The result is both they and I are engaged!

[IWANTHOTDOG]

Too bad this will never happen on a large scale, oh well

[Shelley Nash]

Awesome!! Thank you! We actually do this at our once-a-week private school for homeschooled kids, and we do this with kids as young as 8!! They love learning, they love creating, and they love being allowed to wonder. We actually have them fill a white board full of "I Wonder...." -meaning they fill in that phrase over and over with whatever comes to mind. Then we take the idea of SOLEs (from Child Driven Education - another TED talk) and let them work on it together.

[Jeronimosdc]

Awesome

[DELPHIIII]

Perhaps my favorite ted talk. Real practical proposal. Not lots of platitudes and stories like ken robinson.

[bizauer]

...Sure Lisa, some "magical" animal.

Great talk - I'm in the same boat as you. Education must pertain to the students' real worlds and answer their curiosities. You should have been at barcampicr today with Vik - he had some great ideas also!

[James Walker]

At the Online Learning PD Institute we watched Sir Ken Robinson's animated RSA talk this morning, and Shawn carries on Robinson's ideas in a real classroom. I will now share this with the Institute teachers on the last day.

[Keith Paolino]

I have been raving about this talk, and you Shawn, since I saw this video about a week ago. I think you're amazing, and seeing you reminds me to be grateful for the passionate teacher's I DID have in school. I hope your ideas are getting the attention they deserve, and I hope you don't stop at just this TED talk. While I respect and honor your commitment to your students, I humbly invite you to consider that you have a higher calling, that you can change the face of education in this country.