The slides from a master class I did at The Conference in Malmo, Sweden on August 21st, 2014.

1. The Future Of Education

2. But first let’s get to
know each other

3. Tell a story of a time when you
really enjoyed learning something.
How was the material delivered?
How did it feel?

4. Mattan Griffel Chris Castiglione

11. We’re here to understand the
educational landscape

12. How will you leave better?

13. Here’s what we’re covering today
• The problems with our current educational system
• Why do people get a degree?
• Alternatives to traditional education
• Arguments for and against online learning
• The education landscape
• Accelerated Learning
• The flipped classroom / self-paces learning
• And more!

14. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE
PROBLEMS WITH OUR CURRENT
EDUCATION SYSTEM?

16. Low university completion

17. High cost

18. Lack of preparation for
employment / job skills

19. The innovator’s dilemma in
education

20. “This is what people
buy when they’re
buying a degree.”
!
– Michael Staton,
Learn Capital

21. THE EDUCATION LANDSCAPE

27. WHAT ARE SOME
ALTERNATIVES TO
TRADITIONAL EDUCATION?

28. All online?

29. Thiel fellowship

31. DISCUSSION: WHY ARE
PEOPLE CRITICAL OF
ONLINE LEARNING?

32. THE FLIPPED CLASSROOM
SELF-PACED LEARNING

34. Discussion
• Do you think that a bringing technology into a classroom can make a
classroom more “human”?
• Do you think that teachers should be replaced by computers?

35. ACCELERATED LEARNING

36. How long does it take to learn
a new skill?

37. “It takes 10,000 hours to
acquire a new skill.”
- K. Anders Ericsson

39. Josh Kaufman’s Accelerated Learning model
1. Deconstruct the skill
2. Learn enough to self-correct
3. Remove practice barriers
4. Practice at least 20 hours

40. Group work
• Do you think that accelerated learning works?
• Have you ever learned a new skill quickly?
• If so, what was your approach? What worked and what didn’t?

41. LEARNING TECHNIQUE:
SPACED REPETITION

51. How could we use spaced
repetition

52. WHAT CAN EDUCATION
DO WITH DATA?

53. (Sal Khan talk)

54. Student completion

55. Student completion

60. MOTIVATION

61. The gap (Ira Glass)

62. Duolingo uses A/B testing and is
constantly experimenting with data so
that they can “Learn how people Learn”

63. “The leader board
increased retention
and vitality for us. “

64. 3 hearts was too hard (people dropped off and
never came back), 4 hearts just right (people
would proceed and come back and felt
challenged), 5 was too easy.

65. How do we keep people motivated
in an attention-economy?

66. GOOD TEACHERS:
CAN WE MAKE MORE?

67. Experts have a hard time externalizing
what they’ve internalized

68. explaining
Experts have a hard time externalizing
what they’ve internalized
mastered

69. PROJECT-BASED LEARNING

71. “A student that can be trained by a machine, should be.”
!
“If students have interest, then education happens.”
!
- Sugata Mitra