Time Heist!

When thinking about the future of education there are a lot things to consider but I can tell you first and foremost that we have to stop relying on one of my least favorite words.

"TRADITIOOOOOON!!!! TRADITION!... TRADITION!"

Reliance on tradition is what will kill any progress we hope to achieve in education. I cannot remember how many times I have suggested an innovation only to hear the following conversation:

"We can't do that?"

"Why?"

"Well... this is just the way we've always done it."

The way I see it, there are two possibilities we can move into as educators: 1. Those who accept the system, give up on innovating it, and become just another cog in an ever growing archaic machine. Or those who look at the few valuable gems of the past and throw away all the rest to move our classrooms, and eventually our schools, into the future. We have no time to waste and an infinite amount of time we have to steal.

Now I'm using the term time heist in a very loose way. I don't obviously mean we steal time in a literal sense. More that we have as devices at our fingertips which can save us copious amounts of time. We want some advice on lessons from the number one educator in the world? ]We now have a way to contact them. We want to know everything possible about a subject? We not only have every piece of info from the American perspective but also the European, Asian, African perspectives available at our fingertips. We want to give the students resources. They have the most dynamic set of research tools on the planet available to them in their pockets!

Great Scott!!!

So what does the future of education look like? It looks like whatever we can conceive. But the biggest thing we have to remember is that if we want it to move forward, we have to be willing to innovate and 

not be tied down to traditions, or in other words "how we did it" because the world is moving past us, if we don't follow we'll be stuck in the past.

Harvard: Future of Education