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An alternative school in Venezuela inspires students
The teachers (cooperative educational facilitators) created a tutoring space to work with the children who were at risk of dropping out of school. The project evolved into an alternative school that is managed collectively and embraces a pedagogy focused on empowerment and community transformation, as well as creating a more holistic learning environment for students.
Teachers share methods of learning through poetry
A teacher of English language, shares some methods of teaching that she has found most useful and fun in a not-so-traditional classroom setting -Poetry and free expression.
MITx creates new open course classes
Over a decade ago, MIT decided to offer it’s knowledge for free to the world. Today, MITx is a vision by Anant Agarwal. He wants to bring the classroom experience online for the whole world so students that are curious and passionate about learning will have the opportunity to be in a non-traditional classroom environment, [...]
Southwestern high school students create self-teaching school
On Friday, April 27, 2012 at 10:55 a.m., we students of Western International High School will be starting our first day of class at Southwest Detroit Freedom School at Clark Park, across from our beloved school which we were suspended from. After over 300 of us staged a student walkout on Wednesday April 25, 2012, over 150 [...]
May Day and the free university in New York
The Free University offers a public space for the 99% to disengage from an unequal system and imagine a model for alternative education. Those gathered in Madison Square Park, and those meeting in other spaces in solidarity, will create a university that is open to all, without debt or tuition for students, without pre-requisites, age [...]
Photography and creative schools not propelling students forward
John Free is a social documentary photographer. John has taught at USC, UCLA, Newport Art museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and currently teaches at Pasadena City College. He has worked professionally at this craft for more than 30 years. For his personal work, he does street photography
Coursera jumps into independent education
With the discussion of open-course software, education, and classes. Coursera is one of the many organizations and tech-start ups that are offering opportunities for individuals to learn and even get college credit if they want to.
The Saxifrage school idea on the current educational system
A college education is only worth your time and money if, at the end of four years, you are actually capable of doing because you have been doing, not just studying, all this time. Students should be recognized as sovereign learners capable of education and success even without attending an institution. Some are all the better for having [...]
Forget what you know – knowledge in a fresh perspective by Jacob Barnett
Jacob Barnett is an American mathematician and child prodigy. At 8 years old, Jacob began sneaking into the back of college lectures at IUPUI. After being diagnosed with autism since the age of two and placed in his school’s special ed. program, Jacob’s teachers and doctors were astonished to learn he was able to teach [...]
