What is the purpose of education?
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What is the purpose of education?A sample activity
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Short free write (3 minutes)
• What should students learn in school?
• Why is this important?
Pair-Share (3 minutes)
• Turn to a neighbor and share your ideas
Questions
(to consider while watching)
•Agreements: What aspects of what the speaker says do you agree with?
•Disagreements:Where do you disagree?
•Implications: How does our school align with why the speaker “loves education but hates schooling?”
Structured group conversation
• Round 1: First person describes where they agree with the video (1 minute or less). Next person has 15 seconds to paraphrase what person 1 says. Then 1 minute for their own answer.Continue to go around the circle.
• Round 2: Where do you disagree?
• Round 3: How does our school align with why the speaker “loves education but hates schooling?
Report out
• Questions and next stepso In the same small groups, create a poster to share
with the whole group. o 3 key takeaways.
• Share out ideas with whole group
Whole group discussion
• Does our school encourage students to do work worth doing?
• How could we improve our school?
Extension Activity
Looking at the themes that have emerged have students redesign a school from the group up.
--What would this school look and feel like?
--What would students be doing? Teachers?
--Create an artifact from that new school