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Dr. Jorge Nelson's C.V. is posted at LinkedIn

Why are schools irrelevant?

School of the Future PLUS.pdf

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Lao Tzu said, “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.”

Plato said, “Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”

120 years ago, John Dewey, with his can-do attitude towards education, said, “All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate”.

“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” - W. Edwards Deming

Seymour Papert stresses support for personal variation in learning styles, and for the increased acceptance by schools of the ability to learn without assistance.

“A curriculum defines what we ought to learn. For what? To become competent to live a life that we freely chose, for which we are fully responsible, and that brings us realization. A curriculum, therefore, is not a set of subject matters (‘disciplines’) we need to assimilate, but a matrix of competencies we need to build” - Eduardo Chaves
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Welcome to the Tribe!

It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to our tribal website. I have created this site to stimulate conversations regarding the future of education. I have posted some compelling and, arguably, controversial opinions about how students learn versus how teachers instruct - stemming from a decade of conversations I have enjoyed with myriad educators from around the world.

It is my ultimate desire that these topics provoke new, unique thought exercises to help us in our eternal quest to improve the lot for our children’s children.

Enjoy!
Jorge

Sample keynotes, papers, and presentations
AAIE.2002.presentation.pdf
BIS HIGH SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT.pdf
Building the Digital Classroom.pdf
Computer Simulations (Microcultures).pdf
Director's Report.AGM.Bali.pdf
GASS.pdf
High Fidelity Computer-Based Simulations.pdf
Integrating McREL Standards & The Basic School.pdf
International education.pdf
Scenarios for SIS.pdf
School system simulation.pdf
Teacher behavior and student achievement.pdf
Total Quality Management as a Philosophical .pdf
Towards A Dynamic Data-based Decision-Making Tool.pdf

Sample interactive slideshows
Director's report.AGM.2003.ppt
International Education.Dr.Nelson.ppt
The Essential Middle School final.ppt