The Future Of Education

But first lets get to

know each other

Tell a story of a time when you

really enjoyed learning something.
How was the material delivered?
How did it feel?

Mattan Griffel

Chris Castiglione

Were here to understand the

educational landscape

How will you leave better?

Heres what were covering today

The problems with our current educational system

Why do people get a degree?

Alternatives to traditional education

Arguments for and against online learning

The education landscape

Accelerated Learning

The flipped classroom / self-paces learning

And more!

WHAT ARE SOME OF THE

PROBLEMS WITH OUR CURRENT
EDUCATION SYSTEM?

Low university completion

High cost

Lack of preparation for

employment / job skills

The innovators dilemma in

education

This is what people

buy when theyre
buying a degree.
!

Michael Staton,
Learn Capital

THE EDUCATION LANDSCAPE

WHAT ARE SOME

ALTERNATIVES TO
TRADITIONAL EDUCATION?

All online?

Thiel fellowship

DISCUSSION: WHY ARE

PEOPLE CRITICAL OF
ONLINE LEARNING?

THE FLIPPED CLASSROOM

SELF-PACED LEARNING

Discussion

Do you think that a bringing technology into a classroom can make a

classroom more human?

Do you think that teachers should be replaced by computers?

ACCELERATED LEARNING

How long does it take to learn

a new skill?

It takes 10,000 hours to

acquire a new skill.
- K. Anders Ericsson

Josh Kaufmans Accelerated Learning model

1. Deconstruct the skill

2. Learn enough to self-correct
3. Remove practice barriers
4. Practice at least 20 hours

Group work

Do you think that accelerated learning works?

Have you ever learned a new skill quickly?

If so, what was your approach? What worked and what didnt?

LEARNING TECHNIQUE:
SPACED REPETITION

How could we use spaced

repetition

WHAT CAN EDUCATION

DO WITH DATA?

(Sal Khan talk)

Student completion

Student completion

MOTIVATION

The gap (Ira Glass)

Duolingo uses A/B testing and is

constantly experimenting with data so
that they can Learn how people Learn

The leader board

increased retention
and vitality for us.

3 hearts was too hard (people dropped off and

never came back), 4 hearts just right (people
would proceed and come back and felt
challenged), 5 was too easy.

How do we keep people motivated

in an attention-economy?

GOOD TEACHERS:
CAN WE MAKE MORE?

Experts have a hard time externalizing

what theyve internalized

explaining

Experts have a hard time externalizing

what theyve internalized
mastered

PROJECT-BASED LEARNING

A student that can be trained by a machine, should be.

!

If students have interest, then education happens.

!

- Sugata Mitra