What can we learn about learning time? ARTICLE



In this article, In a Time of Crisis, What Can We Learn About Learning Time? - Educational Leadership, the author explores the useful lessons and impact of crisis schooling on the future of American school structures.


From 100 years of following approximately the same learning system, based on being at school and learning in allotted amounts of time, we've gone into a model previously only charted in crises and by the sliver of American students who are homeschooled. With brick-and-mortar schools shuttered, everyone has been forced into some form of home and remote learning. Parents and educators have struggled to do their best. It's been difficult—but we can, and should, learn about and from this experience.

This reminds me of a video that inspired me at the beginning of my homeschooling journey (see below). Our public school system was designed to prepare people to work in factories in the industrial age. In the current age of innovation, there may be better ways to meet the needs of the next generation. And with so many children schooling-at-home (and trying out traditional homeschool methods) this may be an opportunity to find out just how diverse and flexible we can make learning environments.




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