What if 'school' was not a place at all?
It would look a lot like this . . .
I love schools — especially when they’re designed well (like this one). But that doesn’t mean that the notion of ‘school’ as a fixed place and destination isn’t anachronistic AF.
How people learn, after all, is boundless — it occurs anywhere and everywhere. And now that the smart phones in everyone’s pocket have fundamentally transformed our relationship to content (and one another), it’s simply illogical to restrict anyone’s learning journey to a single location — yet that’s precisely what too many communities around the country are still doing, day in and day out.
The good news is that lots of communities around the country started flipping the script a long time ago — by developing vibrant learning pathways for kids in which the whole community is the campus.
And now, as part of its Learner-Centered in Focus short film series, Education Reimagined has made it possible for us to peer behind the curtain of two such places: Iowa BIG, in Cedar Rapids, and FabNewport, in Newport County, Rhode Island.
What you’ll see is a vision of education too few of us have been able to experience first-hand — and a recipe for the future of learning too good to ignore any longer.
Iowa BIG, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
FabNewport, Newport, Rhode Island
