Marc Rowan: observation

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…How did you do that? That’s the punchline. So, how? We have to teach the state curriculum with state teachers. The only way we can do this is, we can teach it any way we want to teach it. If you go into a Darca school, you are unlikely to find a teacher standing in front of a classroom in any class. Technology has been brought into the classroom. New ways of teaching have been brought, experimentation has been brought into the classroom, games have been brought into the classroom. We trial lots of things, and we double down on those things that work. We are essentially a laboratory for changes in academia. I can’t imagine the status quo is going to hold, that 20 years from now, we’re going to have professors standing in front of classrooms doing what they do. The tools are just so different. The amount of intelligence that people can gather from outside the class and research is so different. What do they need to know? How to figure out what’s true, critical reasoning, how to use the resources and apply critical criteria to those resources. Is the memorization of dates and times and places and orders all that important? Probably not. Critical reasoning context. If someone’s doing a trip to Israel, they might typically go to Jerusalem, Tel Aviv. Where should they go that you know about and maybe they don’t?…

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