Is this school in New York City the future of schooling?
The School of One: Program Overview
(see also the write-ups at Teaching Matters and The Huffington Post)
I tried to dig around the articles enough to see if cost could reasonably be figured out, but had no luck.
The "our team" document has multiple people who serve in non-traditional roles such as project consultants, assessment data managers, portal managers, senior architect, online content manager and the list goes on.
The project also seems to be sponsored by multiple companies.
My point is, that this model is probably very resource-intense. The corporate sponsors can probably only support a small handful of these projects.
I think schools truly want to individualize learning, but lack both the resources to do so, and the ability to break current structures that work against it.
Posted by: Joel VerDuin | March 29, 2010 at 08:19 AM
Yes, or something that looks like it.
Posted by: John Mayer | March 29, 2010 at 08:36 AM
The facets which are most intriguing to me are 1)the alignment of technology-delivered content and assessment; 2)multiple colleagues working as a team; and 3)the individual strengths of professionals being tapped to accomplish something no one could do alone. We can work toward this ideal now--at this time, in this place at our school.
Posted by: Tina | March 29, 2010 at 12:37 PM
In a word yes. I think they don't go quite far enough but it's probably has far as you can go right now. I don't see why this model won't work virtually online. I also think the lesson pool needs to be worldwide. The larger the pool of lessons, the better the chances of customizing the learning for each student.
Quite an inspiring video! Thanks for posting!
Posted by: crudbasher | March 29, 2010 at 12:38 PM
"Multiple instructional modalities"? "Lesson bank"??! That's only a pseudo-school of one. It's not what individualised education is. It's still all about somebody who is not the learner arbitrarily determining what "should" be learnt and where and when. That's a complete waste of the digital revolution's unlimited potential. The genuine school of one is here: www.handschooling.com
Posted by: Bob Collier | March 29, 2010 at 10:23 PM
This is the way learning will go, but be careful, teachers are fearful and very protective of being the center of the classroom.
If this isn't "allowed" in the traditional classroom, someone will just take it all online, virtually. We will have to see how it all plays out, but hopefully b&m schools will follow something like this to stay relevant.
Posted by: Dave | April 03, 2010 at 09:30 PM
The changes proposed will be technologically feasible the challenge would be to get them through the regulatory approval.
Posted by: Mathew Anderson | April 04, 2010 at 04:34 AM
I believe that this will be the future of schooling. I do know that some schools here in Alabama have already started implementing a simular version of this in the high schools. I think that it will work and it will be very effectful.
Posted by: Danielle Pitt | April 05, 2010 at 08:15 PM