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How would you reinvent high school curriculum? My top picks: • add personal finance & taxation course • change English into critical thinking, source verification, and storytelling • require hands-on entrepreneurship project to graduate a la science fair What else?

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Ditch exams, or at least time limited . I LOVED them but they aren’t a gd read of overall capability. +100 on your English replacements. From observation of my kids, they have so much more world awareness many just don’t see the relevance of what they are learning so just ‘tick the box’ to get passing grade

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- Personal finance + investments - Coding bootcamps - Make maths less abstract, must be applied to the real world - also, on an unrelated note, bring in voucher system to increase competition amongst schools, allow local control of their own budget/eliminate top down direction from state/federal

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This awesome essay on the importance of 1-on-1 tutoring / having a good mentor really shaped how I think about education. Problem is, it seems really hard to scale https://erikhoel.substack.com/p/why-we-stopped-making-einsteins

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remove the legal requirement to attend, add more trade and domain-specific tracks, incorporate apprenticeships with skilled journeymen, spend more time outside

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not sure if we need entrepreneurship for all the graduates though

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How far out can I go? 5-10 years: course via dissect and extrapolate: - finance: The Ascent of Money - behavior: Khaneman & Tversky work - statistics: Taleb 30+yrs: burn & restart with explore, exploit, friction frameworks classrooms via in 1 of 3. 1-to-1 (cave) 1-to-many (fire pit) many-to-many (water hole)

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Add classes for daily meditation and journaling, and classes on how to work through difficult situations with other people

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You might find this interesting . https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/web3-academy-exploring-utility-in-nfts-daos-crypto/id1611073208?i=1000585588712

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I think the critical thinking part should be the foundational umbrella for the overall approach so there’s more spaces for new ways of thinking and personal perspectives.

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drew 🌊 pfp

would love something like ‘design for the real world’ teach students how to identity a problem space, understand who/how is effected by it, prototype a potential solution, test and refine, and maybe eventually ship

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@albertwenger's Knowledge Loop flywheel as paradigm 1. Learn from experience 2. Create sth in the real world 3. Share + learn from feedback Creators do this on online, but schools are still oriented on Job Loop: get educated in feedback-less classrooms and consume in stagnant job. https://i.imgur.com/0hRfEJ7.jpg

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In America, the school system is just a product of industrial age. So really needs a complete overhaul from pre-k onward. As a former educator, I agree with improving critical thinking, etc. However, the current system has funding tied to test taking... so 😐 😒 🙄

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pay kids to learn, with rewards metered by the delta of concept acquisition, offering higher returns for the more basic or core concepts. This way kids would be able to contract with teachers that are the best at teaching them.

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Projects that could have real world impact instead of exams

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Promote critical thinking and problem solving: Rather than simply teaching students to memorize facts and figures, try to encourage critical thinking and problem solving skills. This could involve activities like debate clubs, mock trials, or case studies.

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Public speaking, offer education on loans/interest rates/debt (could be within aforementioned personal finance course), revamp physical education to explore and cultivate a love for different ways to move

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Definitely more critical thinking/critical analysis as a central part of the curriculum. I was lucky to have that featured in my MS/HS curriculum and it’s been immeasurably valuable. More civics—especially going deep in the Enlightenment era philosophies that shaped modern democracies. Activism/advocacy, etc. (co

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