How to Design a School for the Future | Punya Mishra | TED

In all the conversations about improving education for children, the voices of students, teachers and community members are often left out. Educational designer Punya Mishra offers a method to shift that paradigm, taking us through new thinking on the root of success (and failure) at school -- and how a totally new, different kind of educational system could better meet students' needs.

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[phillatella]

100% agree we need to change the system. With that said we need to change the society as well. Schools are a microcosm of the society at large. When students come in totally and completely ill prepared, drug addicted, abused, neglected and misguided it's very difficult to teach them anything, even if they like it. When parents could care less, it's difficult. I'm not defending the system by any way shape or form it has to change, but parents need to step up as well. When parents care and work with the schools, even this broken system works.

[federicoheller]

I felt so understood and represented by the making of poetry and doodles in an engineering environment that Mr. Mirshra had me from the get go. I also would like to encourage one of the messages: while it can be reframed as an opportunity for change and motive us, failure does get too overhyped sometimes. While it is a positive way to deal with an unfortunate result, it is not what we strived for- "more failure" shouldn't always, in every context, mean "better". Phenomenal talk, very powerful! He reminds me of that classic TED talk by Ken Robinson about schools killing creativity, and I'm loving that he's doing something new and cool with those ideas

[Kinderkaiser]

The education system need to change, the children is the future, design a school is design our future.

[EugeneKhutoryansky]

The present educational system is horrible. But you are assuming that we need schools in the future. All the educational material is available on YouTube, in far superior quality, if you look in the right places. The only thing that is missing is the hands-on laboratory experience. But that can be gained separately, without paying for all the lectures.

[ShahrezadNorMohammadiy]

*TED, * ‘Be the person who breaks the cycle. If you were judged, choose understanding. If you were rejected, choose acceptance. If you were shamed, choose compassion. Be the person you needed when you were hurting, not the person who hurt you. Vow to be better than what broke you—to heal instead of becoming bitter so you can act from your heart, not your pain.’

[everyday___life]

We didn't get to see what you did. There were no example on how you changed the system.

[DavidVeal]

This was wonderful. I'm glad you found your true purpose, and balance your academic with your artists. My father in law also created the school of the future in his community decades ago. The school exists today. Here are some of the points he made about his school of the future. 1. There are no grades, therefor no winners vs losers, or reasons to teach to a program - rather teach to the individual student. this results in high student self esteem, better student work and zero (so I was shown) disciplinary actions. 2. There are no class periods. You do not have to learn math just because it is 10 a.m. on Tuesday. 3. The student and parent(s) and counselor work out that students individualized contract on what subject matter they will work on, and when. Some students need more freedom, others thrive with more structure. 4. There are no classrooms. Rooms are learning labs, where the student enters and gets to work. If they are hungry, they work in an eating area. If they are tired, they can nap. But in the end, to move on, they know what work they have to complete. Where they do it is up to them. 5. Schools are community centers. Always open. Security is there, this isn't a loose free for all for strangers, but the students and parents and those appropriate from the community can use the building. 6. Students can ask for, or find, speakers for topics of interests. The school will organize the rest. There's more, but those are some highlights I liked. This was back in the 1970's. And it was based on previous open school models. My father in law also wrote a manual, at the time, on how to convert a typical school into an individualized learning center. It warms my heart to see what you have done in your community. There will aways be a new angles on the school of the future. We must all be open to seeking them out.

[betuguptash]

Interesting concept but I would have loved to learn more about your failure and also the specific measures your school is implementing that makes it forward facing. Also hope in your research you were able to study methods already used by successful future-facing school systems, like how Japanese schools instill manners and respect (ex cleanliness) and how some Nordic countries have acclaimed schools. Great work, keep it up!

[ShahrezadNorMohammadiy]

My father had brought me here (at GKB Graveyard) just before I had left Pakistan to enter Harvard University in 1969 (and said): "Remember, whatever happens to you, you will ultimately return here. Your place is here. Your roots are here. The dust and mud and heat of Larkana are in your bones. And it is here that you will be buried."

[Not____Applicable]

Everybody loves to rave about their successes but never sharing what they went through in their failures. That’s also part of the problem. Instead of having a stigma about failing in any facet we should encourage challenges. Getting back up. Trial and error. All things that have been carefully curated have went through some form of this one way or another. If a human tries to tell you they are perfect, they are lying or delusional.

[SarahWoods-ug]

Thank you very much for this Video🤩 What's the Name of this School?

[tka-tpa-prapatankalisari]

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I also know that human progress cannot be denied.  There need not
be contradictions between development and tradition.

Countries like
Japan and South Korea grew their economies enormously while
maintaining distinct cultures!

[iloveyoumadhuri]

This is why only 11% of American students or individuals care to be in STEM positions or education. Thank you, Mr. Mishra!!!

[ShahrezadNorMohammadiy]

A friend's chance remark changed my mind. "What is not recorded is not remembered, " she told me.

— Benazir Bhutto 🇵🇰

[bluejihye]

In this lecture, he said that he was unable to create creativity and imagination in the education of lectures and exams. So, in the project of becoming an educational designer and establishing a local school, he created a school that meets the needs of children in school by creating an education based on conversations with children, teachers, etc., and I want to have a lot of conversations with children and people related to the curriculum and make a class that satisfies both children and people.

[Hopeful]

Apart from education, we should care more about children, s general health. Writing, sitting, standing, carrying may all seem to be ordinary actions, but, for the long-term, they actually contribute to poor posture and pain . We should educate children how to do these and other physical actions correctly and stress the importance of general health .

"Poor posture is the world, s modern pandemic "

[kuataytkazinov]

The schooling we face nowadays are the results of the past century, when industrial government required the type of society that fits only industrial needs such as writing, counting, etc. Just ask yourself one question!
While the modern technology and AI are still altering with very high rates, why do children has to sit in boring blocks instead of going out and reflecting with the reallife experience?
That is very grooming((((

[ShahrezadNorMohammadiy]

In our male-dominated culture, boys had always been favored over girls and were not only more apt to be educated, but in extreme instances to be given food first while the mother and daughters waited. In our family, however, there was no discrimination at all. If anything, I received the most attention.

— Benazir Bhutto 🇵🇰

[tka-tpa-prapatankalisari]

👩🏼‍🎓🇺🇳
"One of the most important lessons I learnt in my life of struggle for freedom and peace is that in any conflict there comes a point when neither side can claim to be right and the other wrong, no matter how much that might have been the case at the start of a conflict."
~Nelson Mandela
during a video message for the signing of the Geneva Accord, December 2003

[High-Tech-Geek]

Sounds like you should have been an architect, not an engineer. Engineers don't write poems. They have to calculate precise loads and tensile strengths and compressions. It's not a very artistic field. Not sure why you pursued it.