Submitted by Juan Bernabó (not verified) on January 8, 2008 - 16:05.
Hi,
I´m a self educated men, I quit school when I was 13 years old, and I speak 3 languages, own a company in technology consulting.
Last year I realized what was the process that I unconsciously followed, and was giving me systematic results on my education and I continue to follow today.
I quit formal education because It didn´t motivate me, I don´t like memorizing, I want to understand things, I don´t like pass a test, I want to create things, so I must understand, not have correct answers for the test.
I now can realize that all my education came from projects, I learned how to program computers, create hardware products, learn languages, all by doing, and continuously improving, It shifted the direction of the education from push, to pull, my motivations and interests were pulling the education, so I just started to talk about just in time education, new concepts were pulled when theory needed was missing to produce something.
Now we face a shift and our economy is more and more driven by innovation, where following instructions, or memorizing is not longer possible, as you need to create new knowledge, but our schools are teaching for the past and not for the future.
We need to cause a change in our education systems that allows our children to have opportunities.
Congratulations to the ones who are devoting time and money to realize this future!
Project based education is a return to the Studio model
Submitted by Juan Bernabó (not verified) on January 8, 2008 - 16:05.
Hi,
I´m a self educated men, I quit school when I was 13 years old, and I speak 3 languages, own a company in technology consulting.
Last year I realized what was the process that I unconsciously followed, and was giving me systematic results on my education and I continue to follow today.
I quit formal education because It didn´t motivate me, I don´t like memorizing, I want to understand things, I don´t like pass a test, I want to create things, so I must understand, not have correct answers for the test.
I now can realize that all my education came from projects, I learned how to program computers, create hardware products, learn languages, all by doing, and continuously improving, It shifted the direction of the education from push, to pull, my motivations and interests were pulling the education, so I just started to talk about just in time education, new concepts were pulled when theory needed was missing to produce something.
Now we face a shift and our economy is more and more driven by innovation, where following instructions, or memorizing is not longer possible, as you need to create new knowledge, but our schools are teaching for the past and not for the future.
We need to cause a change in our education systems that allows our children to have opportunities.
Congratulations to the ones who are devoting time and money to realize this future!
Juan.