That’s my dream… which is easier said than done. A new breed of teacher/facilitators are trained and recruited to do away with download-style pedagogy, and rather serve as curators of ideas and enablers of creativity and innovation.In fact, theyre similar to the school dreams youve also probably had. The school is not just a tool for youth, but is a resource for the entire community it serves: Provides co-working and incubator resources for people with ideas that want to involve youth, and facilitates innovative, non-formal, informal and “invisible” learning opportunities. Whether you dream about showing up at the office naked or yelling at the boss.(Update: Kraft Foods is trying out this approach.) Students are responsible for bringing in and supporting their own technology, perhaps by providing them with a technology grant/budget. An infrastructure is created to support technologies, but the technologies themselves are not deeply embeded (because they will likely change by the time they’re institutionalized).Rather, it is designed to be easily transformed and reconfigured as quickly as our ideas regarding teaching and learning evolve and transform. Manager of School Board Relations and Project Planning. Moreover, building that houses the organization is designed to be more than just a box. Search 447 Dream School jobs now available in Ontario on, the worlds largest job. The traditional classroom is abandoned in favor of space that favors multidirectional collaboration.The organization abandons the word “school” - in reinventing education, it becomes a bootcamp for design where youth and collaborating community members apply their creativity toward innovative applications.Postscript: Here is my Dream School (as shared on Thursday): As a Skype (distant) participant, I really cannot report on how the entire discussion went, so make sure to follow the project sites for their take on the meeting and their next actions as they work to transform their dreams into reality. The project will have a website up-and-running soon at, and also in Dutch at:.
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