Changing Education Paradigms

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Here is a video that stresses my point on how things are run and how they could be run. after you're done watching this video read my next comments.


Imagine now with me a classroom that looks like this?


Teachers are replaced with life coaches and Personal goal charts. Students are given a gaming ID or can use their own gaming IDs they already have from the Xbox, Wii, or other systom. They are allowed to come in and play at any time and are only chards $50 a month or $3 per day or they can sign up for a sponsor. They can play whatever they want.

When they are ready to get serious with their education they come to a life coach and say something like "I'm done just playing these games for fun I want to go into engineering" The coach and student sit down together and look over what he or she has played already. The Coach share what the student still needs to learn and gives him an option and a list of games that teach that skill. 

In every game there is a skill and knowledge they learn as they go through the game they get a score (not a Grade) that shows how much they know. There is no limit to how high their score can be.

For those who like to read and study can take classes the coaches put together. For those skills that are not in game form are also taught in a classroom setting but the class room setting is nothing you have seen before. Keep in tuned to learn more about the classrooms.



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