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A Manifesto for EduChange
Posted on | November 24, 2009 | No Comments
Just one snippet of a great article on the eduFire blog:
Imagine a teacher who simply decides to focus exclusively on getting extremely good at explaining the problems in one particular chapter of a popular textbook. Let’s say that they develop movies and games and anecdotes and all sorts of stuff to make the problems in that one chapter just totally come to life. 10 years ago there was no market for that. Today, there are whiffs of a market. 10 years from now it will be really obvious that there’s a market. And that teacher will create a great livelihood by simply getting incredibly good at being able to teach a micr0-chunk of content and then scaling that teaching across millions of people.But now here’s where it gets really fun. If one teacher can support himself or herself teaching the problems out of one chapter of one textbook then it’s easy to imagine thousands of teachers doing the same thing. And now as a student it gets really good. Because for every subject/textbook chapter, etc. you have someone who is world-class available to teach you. It would be like going to school and having a teacher in every subject who’s as knowledgable and passionate as Al Gore is teaching about climate change or Richard Feynman is explaining physics.
via A Manifesto for EduChange on the Eve of Hacking Education | The eduFire Blog.
Jon Bischke at Edufire is doing and writing some amazing things. He’s someone I’d love to have lunch or drinks with the next time I’m in San Francisco (Jon, if you’re reading, it’s on me!). Best of luck to a guy who’s changing the world.
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