Earlier this week I met with Tony and Tom from Mazz Media. They have over 30 Years of experience in the Educational Media and have won hundreds of industry awards for excellence including an Emmy® Award.
What distinguished them was not that, but the fact that they enjoyed what they did which was teaching kids. You can check them out at
http://mazz.com/
We got around to discussing kids with different learning abilities, a topic close to my heart due to Reia. As it turned out, it was close to Tony's heart too because his daughter's a Special ED teacher and one of his grand-kids too has ADHD.
We figured that the biggest challenge was not the lids. They were good learners. It was the system. Ignacio Estrade put it beautifully "If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn."
And that led to another conversation. Is school and college as we know it required to lead to a successful career and life. As it turned out, the answer is No. And its been represented and talented about by several people. Here are my 3 favorites, not coincidentally all TED talks on the subject.
And now I have the challenge of explaining to Reia why going to college is actually a good idea.
Hackschooling makes me happy : Logan LaPlante
School is optional : Ken Danford
How schools kill creativity : Sir Ken Robinson
What distinguished them was not that, but the fact that they enjoyed what they did which was teaching kids. You can check them out at
http://mazz.com/
We got around to discussing kids with different learning abilities, a topic close to my heart due to Reia. As it turned out, it was close to Tony's heart too because his daughter's a Special ED teacher and one of his grand-kids too has ADHD.
We figured that the biggest challenge was not the lids. They were good learners. It was the system. Ignacio Estrade put it beautifully "If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn."
And that led to another conversation. Is school and college as we know it required to lead to a successful career and life. As it turned out, the answer is No. And its been represented and talented about by several people. Here are my 3 favorites, not coincidentally all TED talks on the subject.
And now I have the challenge of explaining to Reia why going to college is actually a good idea.
Hackschooling makes me happy : Logan LaPlante
School is optional : Ken Danford
How schools kill creativity : Sir Ken Robinson
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