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Systems thinking – Did you learn anything? https://www.didyoulearnanything.net An archived blog about education, language, peace, and other fine things Mon, 26 Jun 2023 19:09:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Steven G. Brant on Design Thinking and education https://www.didyoulearnanything.net/blog/2011/01/27/steven-g-brant-on-design-thinking-and-education/ Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:19:25 +0000 http://www.didyoulearnanything.net/?p=1260 Continue reading Steven G. Brant on Design Thinking and education →]]> Here’s a great piece from the Huffington Post by Steven G. Brant: “Waiting For “Superman” and How Design Thinking Can Make Us the Superheroes We’ve Been Waiting for”. (via Mike Sadofsky)

It’s a bit long, and apparently it had been in my inbox since October until I finally read it last night. Still, it’s worth reading, and once I started on it I couldn’t stop until I was done.

Brant points out that the thinking behind “Waiting for ‘Superman'” and most attempts at “fixing” education is based on the assumption that the system is designed right, just not working right at the moment because of some part of it being out of order. Instead, he suggests looking at the basic design and fixing that first. Best of all, he points to Sudbury Valley School as the model for how education should be designed for the current age.

It’s great to see this in such a well-known, mainstream liberal place as HuffPo.

The piece also has a bunch of videos, mostly about SVS, which I haven’t had a chance to watch yet.

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