Thanks to a post by Pat Kane about plans for a new School in New York, my morning was brightened. Here, at last, are some people rethinking the nature of schooling in a sensible way, with a million dollar grant from the MacArthur Foundation to support its planning and development:
“The new school has been conceived as a dynamic learning system that takes its cues from the way games are designed, shared and played. All players in the school teachers, students, parents and administrators will be empowered to innovate using 21st century literacies that are native to games and design. This means learning to think about the world as a set of in interconnected systems that can be affected or changed through action and choice, the ability to navigate complex information networks, the power to build worlds and tell stories, to see collaboration in competition, and communicate across diverse social spaces. It means that students and teachers will engage in their own learning in powerful ways.”