Hacking Your

Education Dale J.

Stephens

5,700 janitors

with Ph.Ds in

North

America

hendrix college

picture of hackademic camp

Months 1-3: Co-living in San Francisco

Months 3-6: Foreign Journey

Months 6-9: Creative Project

Months 9-12: Apprenticeship

AGency

“Never let my schooling get in

the way of my education”

- Mark Twain

source: John Stephens

Homeschooling

≠

Unschooling

AGency unschooling

summer hill

3 million copies 1960-1973

picture of book like THE HOMEWORK MYTH

Do we trust people’s innate capacity to be curious?

Zinch LOGO

Unschooling > Public School

AGency

Define

my own

standards of excellence

Hendrix Logo

I should also make it clear that we unschoolers all at one time or another tried out elements of school.

picture of school

Accepted MOVIE cover

source: vgm8383

Pre-School/Kindergarden Grade School High School College The Rest of Your Life

What does school provide?

What does

school

provide?

source: qwrrty

What about the beer and girls?

source: Tyler Driscoll

I prefer guys and champagne.

source: Tyler Driscoll

The system we were supposed to trust

has proven itself untrustworthy.

Knowledge

Enter to Grow in Wisdom . . .

Enter to grow in wisdom . . .

36% showed no improvement

average debt upon graduation

Source: US Department of Education

credit card debt

one trillion dollars

This problem is not just an American one.

Videos lessons

18 minute talks

videos are booooooooooooring

videos are passssssiiiiveeeeeee

Quora

quora - knowledge

open study

but the future isn’t here yet!

Why can’t I go down

to my local

Starbucks and meet

up with people who

are taking the same

online course as

me?

apprenticeship

what do you do with these skills when you acquire them?

Community

unadvertised job market

nick bilton

?

...

Signal

Stack Overflow

Text

Text

reputation graph

Education is Becoming Decentralized

Education is becoming decentralized

What does this mean for you?

Schools will be more unschooled

It starts here . . .

-student choice

-contextualizing learning

-self-evaluation

-student setting their own goals

-peer review boards

-mentorship

-students will become teachers

-end of age cohorts

-not time-driven

-school as community centers

-teachers as life coaches

. . . and ends up here

What does school provide?

Old Model New Model

Unschooling

Thank you for listening.

Find out more at

uncollege.org

@dalejstephens

on Twitter

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