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