Sunday, October 04, 2009

Here is the classroom of the future? Hummmm ...

The founder of Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta thinks it is a school role model.  I question if it should be for multiple reasons.  The first reason is that the founder did not study education at the University level. They are many other reasons that should be obvious to you.  I decided not going to go into it.  It is enough for you to watch the video and draw your own conclusion.

This is a video of what may be the classroom of the future.

1 comment:

mike said...

Back in 1972, at Tampa Catholic High School, Tampa, Florida. Margaret Downs of the English department attempted to implement this very atmosphere in her classroom. She was fired before the Christmas break. Cooper, in the Math dept was also leaning in the same direction. He was fired by Valentine's Day. Ed Beckshaw of the Social Studies dept. was let go at year's end.
All these teachers had a vision of a new & changing way to teach without desks, tests, grades, or discipline unless severely needed. They referred to the concept as "free school" Needless to say a parochial school in the deep south in 1972 didn't have an administration that saw it the same way.
Mike Mirra of the math dept (ME) was also fired that same year for having an extreme problem with disciplining children & for concealing children to judge rules & regulations & to come to their own conclusions as to which ones to obey or not. It wasn't exactly what this new approach entails, but it was all about changing the educational experience from a static drudgery imposed on our youth & making it over into something that grasps the student & sweeps him/her up in a fever of involvement in something they find compelling.

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