tdn2166 born limitless presentation v2
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Aiming for a 10x Improvement in Child Education
Don’t limit a child to your own learning,for he was born in another time.
Rabindranath Tagore
Moonshot Thinking
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Among the world’s children starting grade school this
year, 65% will end up doing jobs that haven’t even been
invented yet.Salman Khan
The One World School House (2012)
The troubling factor is that our current system of testing and grading tends to filter out the creative, different-thinking people who are most likely to make major contributions to a field.Salman Khan
We teach and test things that most students have no interest in and will never need, and facts that they can Google and forget as soon as the test is over.
The Week Magazine
Mainstream education practices are not sufficient to prepare kids for a world full of changeSparks & Honey
Breakthrough Technology
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Technology is improving exponentially
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The Reality Gap
Real Life
Online Learning is hitting a tipping point
Computer based learning
is becoming a practical option for most students
The Birth of HackschoolingRather than pursue a straight-run through of high school and college,
innovators are piecing together their own custom learning experiences based on a mixture of real world experiences and personalised modular classes.
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Since we can’t predict exactly what todays’ young people will need to know in ten or twenty years, what we teach them is less important than how they learn to teach themselves.Salman Khan
The History of Educational Outliers
Da Vinci was the son of a nobleman and a peasant woman and was educated at home. No formal schooling, the village priest taught him the basics. Leonardo da Vinci was self taught.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. In today’s language Mozart would be considered a “home-schooled” prodigy.
Judit Polgár
Judit Polgár is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. She is by far the strongest female class player in history. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, the youngest person ever to do so at that time.
Judit was the product of an educational experiment. Her father recruited a wife and picked chess as a random subject. Her two sisters are also Grandmasters.
Geniuses are made, not born
László Polgár
The 10,000 Hour Rule
Superstar lawyers, math whizzes and software entrepreneurs
appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience, but
they don’t. They are products of history and community,
of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not exceptional
or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and
inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just
plain lucky, but all critical to making them who they are.
The outlier in the end, is not an outlier at all.
Malcom Gladwell
The 10,000 Hour Rule
The lesson is very simple, but it is striking how often it is
overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and
brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring
naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates
and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old
to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur, but that’s
the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old
unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a
million teenagers had been given the same opportunity,
how many more Microsofts would we have today?
Malcom Gladwell
But Wait – The Exception to That Rule
It is possible to become world-class in just about anything in six months or less. Armed with the right framework, you can seemingly perform
miracles, whether with Spanish, swimming or
anything else in betweenTim Ferris
The Emergence of New Educational Outliers
Jack Andraka is the sixteen-year-old discoverer of
a testing strip that detects the early signs of pancreatic cancer.
Taylor Ramon Wilson is an American nuclear scientist. In 2008, at age 14, he became the youngest person in the world to
build a working fusor.
Can we do this on purpose?
What if there was a place your child could go that made learning fun
and inspired them every single day?
What if there was a place your child could go that allowed
their creaticity to flourish?
What if there was a place your child could go where they could test their ideas with the
newest cutting edge technology and be mentored by some of the most inspirational people on the planet?
What if there was a place your child could go where they could
develop ideas to solve humanity’s biggest problems?
What if there was a place where you could unlock your child’s
limitless potential?
The highest impact education space on Earth.
Providing the mindset, skillset and toolset.
To make he impossible possible.
You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer, create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.Sir Ken Robinson
The hardest part is already done.
We already believe that this can be achieved. We believe in the limitless potential
of our childen.
What is Next?
• To create a pioneer program and location for 20 self taught
eleven to fourteen-year-olds in The Bay Area.
• To invest in them the resources to allow them to achieve
their limitless potential.
• The radical re-invention of the upper limit for
child education
What is required to make this happen?
• A ‘whatever it takes’ approach to funding.
• Partnerships with cutting edge technology firms.
• Access to world changing faculty.
• Management and delivery teams.
What is the future of Born Limitless?
• To create a permanent education space that constantly looks
to maximise the limits of human potential.
• To open source the findings to the remainder of the planet.
• To catalyse a new educational paradigm.
