Stop assessing everything: By everything, I mean every single content standard. In order to make a “guaranteed and viable curriculum,” we need to make strategic decisions about what is “need to know” and what is “nice to know.”

This is an idea we should apply in both in-person and online learning. However, with online learning, this is a further call to distil our curriculum to essential learning and target specific standards and outcomes.

Timetables are the worst. Why still have them?

Is structure a help or a hinder?

By 2020, instead of classes in physics, math, literature, history or geography, Finland is going to introduce a different approach to life through education. Welcome to the phenomenon based learning!

The ways people interact, socialise, and work are shifting rapidly. By the time the kindergartners of today become the graduates of 2030, the world will be vastly different from anything previous generations have experienced.

There will probably be no campuses as we know them today. Learning won’t be limited to a physical school. Traveling classrooms and the real world environment will be a new campus. However, city libraries and city laboratories will remain to help students complete their projects.

• Students are no longer dependent upon a certain place and are able to study wherever they are.
• Students become closer to nature as they have a chance to spend more time out of the classroom
• Unlimited study space makes students more open to the world around facing its real challenges

Statistics:

Content that once had to be drilled into students’ heads is now just a phone swipe away, but the ability to make sense of that information requires thinking critically about it. Similarly, our democracy is today imperiled not by lack of access to data and opinions about the most important issues of the day, but rather by our inability to sort the true from the fake (or hopelessly biased).