Marco+Torres

Schools of the Future Conference
 * Marco Torres**

Make Structure Permeable Curriculum is a fancy word for stuff

analog vs digital
 * by approaching design with the customer in mind... (Kodak)
 * physical requirements dictate the analog instrument
 * physical requirements can take on any form in a digital word, you can change structure

What analog restrictions in your school are preventing kids from learning?

Question is: Do you want to learn to use the tool or just make the creation? eg: do you want to learn to play the cello or just make music that sounds like the cello? to use a camera or to take beautiful pictures?

educare (latin) - to pull from not impose upon pedagogy

we are still trying to come up with solutions to the questions we don’t even have devise a zero-gravity pen or take a pencil?

my goal is to make sure kids come back tomorrow

students like to watch teachers learn How have your students seen you learn?

distance is determined by bandwidth these days

are we in a stuff economy or an idea economy? eg buying an airline for 1.6 billion or the Marvel comics for 4 billion

If our business is perfecting the delivery of stuff, how far off are we from being obsolete? What is our business then?

Innovation = passion, experimentation, ingenuity

Essential questions = How do I...?
 * In schools do we make stuff better by just adding buttons? (ex remote control spread)
 * Does that really make it better? or just add more stuff?

How do we make a better school? vs How do we make school and more personalized experience?

Knowing something had more value back in the day than it does now...

Well what is the value then?

Do students deliver stuff well or do they deliver their thoughts?

The added value is your ability to learn, not that you are learned.

Who are your top students, athletes, learners? What options do you have to show off top learners

Schooling vs Learning journey vs destination

Its more about learning than it is knowing

Love is an incredible part - if you love it then you pursue it!

Empower kids to love learning + Be resourceful/get into problems + have a network

Action! story! family!

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