Learning Without Classrooms

With foreword by Jason Ohler

Despite technological advancements, most secondary schools still function on ideas that are more than 100 years old. Learning Without Classrooms outlines new guidelines for how schools must operate to remain relevant and effective as we move further into the 21st century. Making a persuasive argument for moving beyond the long-established idea of operating schools with traditional classroom instruction to a personalized learning environment for individual students, the authors detail six crucial elements of school management (community, instruction, time, technology, school facilities, and funding) and how to address them concurrently to improve secondary school learning environments.

Transform secondary schools systemwide, from restructuring the physical learning environment to supporting personalized learning: Learn the six elements of schooling, and understand how changing any one element influences the others. Explore nine critical skills students need for success in the modern world. Review the structure and methodology behind an advisory-based concept for school management. Consider scenarios of what learning will look like in the near future as powerful new technological tools become available. Study seven visionary designs for how to renovate existing secondary school facilities to support technologically infused, personalized learning environments.

Contents:

Introduction Part 1: Understanding 21st Century Learning

Chapter 1: The Classroom Has Run Its Course

Chapter 2: Key Principles for Modern Schooling

Chapter 3: Nine Essential Skills for the Modern World

Chapter 4: How Technology Will Change Education

Part 2: Designing 21st Century Schools

Chapter 5: Schooling for the Future

Chapter 6: How to Make It Happen

Chapter 7: Concepts for New Advisory-Based Schools

Part 3: Reimagining Seven Schools for the 21st Century

Chapter 8: Additional Considerations for Transitioning to an Advisory Format

Chapter 9: The Capital School

Chapter 10: The Green School

Chapter 11: The Connected School

Chapter 12: The Open School

Chapter 13: The District School

Chapter 14: The Tech School

Chapter 15: The Academy School



Epilogue