Training Students for 2030 @DisruptorLabs
Training students to be problem-solvers vs. answer-seekers is how we solve climate change, reactive healthcare, global poverty, etc.
The problem is, most students are answer seekers. I want to train kids to think differently.
I started writing Gamifying Education in January alongside Eric Koester and Georgetown University. The premise of the book is to write the blueprint to build new schools and document my vision for the education system as I begin to create it throughout the next 5–10 years.
The inevitable fact is — school needs an update. The system is unknowingly training students to think inside the box, follow the rubric, and prioritize passing over learning. A push for enrichment based extracurriculars has helped students maximize their knowledge at a micro-scale but most of the training is confined within the extracurricular time. Students are training new skills in the extracurricular program but are still going to 30+ hours of school/week, working on homework assignments, etc which creates a conflict of cognitive interest. We can’t train students to be the future of the leaders of the world in the extracurricular and then send them to school and have them become re-trained by outdated systems that finite metrics mater and their success is bounded to a career.
