I am writing this blog post as a reflection to the movie watched in class, “Most Likely to Succeed”.  I found this film to be very inspirational, as times are changing in education, especially when it comes to having a growth mind set and the benefits of technology in the classroom.

The school featured, High Tech High, is forward thinking and innovative.  It bases it’s teaching style as a learning design model, where learning is more about the whole experience than a typical classroom lesson plan.  When facts get taught in the classroom by the traditional method, reading and writing, how much really sticks?

I am very much a person who learns through experience.  I can read from a textbook, right down facts, study for an exam and get an A, but you can ask me right now what I remember from those tests and it won’t be a lot.  It’s not until I apply the facts I’ve learned, whether it be through conversation or something more hands on, that I am able to retain this information.

This film left me with a lot of questions.  Would something like this be attainable to do within Canada in the near future? Is this the direction we are beginning to move with the development of our new curriculum?

Whatever is to come, I believe we are making a move in the right direction.  And like the film said, we won’t know how well this program works until we have research backing what happens when the students enter the job force.