Matt Micciche, Head of School
Friends School of Baltimore
The world needs what our children can do.

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

"The Future Will Not be Multiple Choice"

TED Talk - "The Future Will Not be Multiple Choice"

This is a fascinating TED talk by a designer and educator about how we can make education more meaningful, relevant and powerful for our students.  As they point out, the opportunity for choice, investment, and problem-solving is inherently appealing to children, in a way that , for example, rote learning to be assessed by multiple-choice questions is not.  Here at Friends, we are constantly working to incorporate this approach to learning in our classrooms.  As the presenters in this talk point out, this is unquestionably the best way to prepare students for the world in which they will be living once they move on from our campus.  The traditional model of education was, they argue, developed to prepare children to work within the industrial-age system of its time.  New approaches such as the ones they describe foster in students the qualities will need to thrive in and shape the future.