Inverting the Curriculum: Ariel Diaz at TEDxCambridge 2013

Ariel Diaz, CEO of Boundless Learning, makes the case that educational curriculum is upside-down, and explains why starting with big, bold ideas could be the next big thing in education. Learn more about Ariel Diaz at www.boundless.com and TEDxCambridge at www.tedxcambridge.com.
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[@graw777]

Love this!! It is the way i try to teach...My mother was a teacher for 35 years and she talked to me about this... she knew it worked...for years ive seen this way of teaching does work.

[@rspill]

Excellent talk and totally correct.

[@eddbrowne]

This inversion approach has been tried many times on a narrow scale, and it often
goes wrong, particularly in high schools. End result is students don't do well on the SAT/ACT/GRE, and lose the advantages of focus on a narrow technical subject.
Typical detail-only teaching is a disaster, but if it's merged with brief "inverted" material,
motivated learning of narrow subjects is optimized. One key is to start with
detailed examples of how the subject being covered is used in applications.

[@jimstrickler9987]

Wish I could take biology at Grinnell College. Sounds great!

[@jembendell]

very Charlotte Mason

[@santanaautobody7336]

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