Innovations in Education: Retooling Schooling: First Program: Resources

THE FIRST PROGRAM
Resources

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

Full Program Transcript
Video of Program
Audio Files
Graphic Notes
Blank Journalist's Notebook
Reports

Transcript

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Video of Program

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Audio Files

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Sibbet -- series intro: Moderator David Sibbet describes the vision and goals of the Retooling Schooling program series.
Goldberg -- community solutions: Dr. Milt Goldberg suggests that improving student learning will require intensive collaboration between schools and outside community organizations.
Goldberg -- economic imperative: Dr. Milt Goldberg articulates the economic imperative for improving public education.
Goldberg -- education system: Dr. Milt Goldberg talks about new skills that the global economy demands of workers.
Goldberg -- localism of problems: Dr. Milt Goldberg debunks the idea that individual school districts have idiosyncratic problems that cannot be solved by learning from success stories in other districts.
Goldberg -- science education and the EPA: Dr. Milt Goldberg suggests that our narrow definitions of student success do not represent the knowledge and skills necessary to compete in the global economy.
Goldberg -- teachers: Dr. Milt Goldberg points to fundamental changes that need to be made in the teaching profession.
Martinez -- institution unchanged: Dr. Monica Martinez argues that public education is the one social institution that has not changed since the industrial age.
Martinez -- kids learn everywhere: Dr. Monica Martinez describes how students learn well beyond the confines of school buildings and hours.
Martinez -- public will: Dr. Monica Martinez argues that the real issue in public education is that there is no collective will for change.
Martinez -- standards based reform: Dr. Monica Martinez describes the challenge of holding schools accountable for student results without stifling innovation.
Martinez -- strong opinions strongly held: Dr. Monica Martinez on how intense personalization in the economy may be contributing to increased social polarization, adversely affecting public education
Martinez — teachers: Dr. Monica Martinez describes how changes in 21st Century working environments should modify the way we think about the role of the teacher.
Martinez -- technology as a driver: Dr. Monica Martinez describes how technology has created major cultural shifts that should be informing a revolutionary change in public education.
Nelson -- cultivating learners: Randy Nelson provides an industry perspective on the value of developing "lifelong learners" as a primary outcome of public education.
Nelson -- pattern-based information: Randy Nelson suggests that American public schools are not preparing students to lead innovative industry, but rather to become the "offshore" for countries like China and India.
Nelson -- Pixar University: Randy Nelson uses the Disney story to articulate the type of learning environment that will prepare students to become innovators in industry.
Nelson — teachers: Randy Nelson compares teachers to scientists and suggests that the fear of failure has an adverse affect on good teaching.