The way education is accomplished is changing.
Much of the world is self-starting, self-motivated and self-paced. These individuals and families are no longer subscribing to the older models of education. The days of herding children of varying backgrounds, aptitudes and interests into the same classroom to be taught to do what you’re told are over for many. Now families are teaching their children to question the questions rather than simply give the answer the teacher is looking for.
Our children learn at home. They study and work from a computer as they likely will for the rest of their lives. They study all of the core subjects as well as those things that interest them. They study to their strengths and the areas they are most likely to use in their lifetimes.
One of the tools we have been tremendously helped by is Khan Academy. In 2006, Khan Academy was established by Salman Khan as a result of posting youtube videos for his nephews. They were struggling with mathematics and he would post tutorials to help them better understand their studies. Of course, more than his nephews were helped and it began to grow from there.
Khan Academy now exists to provide “a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.”
If you haven’t checked it out, you should.
This is the future of education.
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