A new model of education, post pandemic and for the mid-21st century and beyond, requires more than simply moving learning to a remote and/or hybrid model. It requires a new way to think about education, in essence, a re-ordering of space and time in a way that has not been previously been done.
According to LeiLani Cauthen, CEO & Publisher at the Learning Counsel News Media & Research organization, “There's been a shift in expectations by the American public, and that's very evident in how much homeschooling suddenly started happening and students leaving, not re-enrolling.
“In our last national survey, we learned that 20 percent of kids aren't coming back, even though they want to remain affiliated, those are in addition to the ones that have already opted out. So there are new principles to this whole logistics thing. Many parents were frustrated with how remote learning was done. The news headlines are everywhere.
“And then other parents really want ‘normal’ back. So, we're in the middle of doing this across the mosaic of what districts are doing nationwide. There's, there's, uh, the alteration of space. This is fun because we're the EduJedi Leadership Society too. And as sort of a Star Wars association talking about space and time, this is terribly interesting to me. So sectioning buildings means you may reduce your liabilities for infections by having certain populations only allowed in and out one door you've you you've sectioned your building, or you are alternating building used by groups and you're disinfecting overnight. And then, maybe you're doing what we showed with the game earlier, associating certain cohorts together into houses, and then they're flighted out to do classes online, or maybe they're physically in building. So when a class is held, classrooms now are treated as meeting spaces. Only. This is the way corporate America has been doing it for 20 years. Then you have to worry about social distancing, which is really hard for the little kids. And then there's this new trend, particularly in California, of micro schools, taking over retail space and micro schooling, which is the whole different way to structure how your schools are executing.
“Then we get into the time considerations. So the impact on teachers from this is they're having to sometimes teach from home and some of them want to remain at home via video conferencing and systems, and getting used to that.”
Clearly, there is a new and better way. In this amazing presentation by the Learning Counsel’s LeiLani Cauthen, see how the future of learning will bend time and space to accommodate students, and technology is used is leveraged to increase learning by giving teachers the ability to do one thing that technology can never do… be more human.
