The future will not be a multiple choice test

by | Thursday, February 07, 2013

From Chris Sloan, teacher at Judge Memorial Catholic High School and a student in our hybrid PhD program, comes a link to a TED talk. The description is as follows:

Creative genius Drew Davies and forward-thinking educator Jaime McGrath propose a new approach to classroom teaching: Turn curricula into design challenges, classrooms into workshops and teach students to think like designers.

Key quote:
  • The future will not be a multiple choice test, it will be a design challenge!

Watch for yourself…

Topics related to this post: Art | Creativity | Design | Fun | Good | Bad Design | Learning | Philosophy | Teaching | Technology | Video | Worth Reading

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