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to create a more adjustable school
system that adapts to the needs of
millions of children education
entrepreneur Max ventilla is relying on
digital technology one of the key
Hallmarks of a 21st century profession
is that you are using digital
Technologies to build on your own
capabilities we can all have the same
Legos and we can create an infinite
number of different Arrangements that
each satisfy our own individual need for
me this phrase Mass
customization is the the
goal so can you tell us more about that
that super oppose layer that says C A
something T so I think we've identified
that called alt school this experiment
in customizable learning environments is
taking place in a small private network
of one room School houses it's not a lab
in the form that we're performing
experiments it's a lab in the form of us
trying to understand how to build the
best quality education every single day
in that
classroom nearly everything here is done
on computers by working closely with
software Engineers teachers can alter
the programs to suit the needs of each
child how do you do that you could do it
like that when you get a device Now That
device has a settings icon and when you
click on that settings icon there's all
kinds of things that you can change to
customize it for yourself you know how
you have the the bar graphs within the
now we can provide customization at
scale and that in an education
environment means that individual
children who think differently who learn
differently are on different paths can
now get the thing that works best for
them for the particular goal they're
trying to achieve ratios like fractions
are about relationships so in our scale
model as we grow as the actual height of
at this old school in paloalto Courtney
Reynolds is teaching a math lesson about
ratios to a mixed age group of students
so this is about uh 170 ft after the
group lesson students will put their new
knowledge about ratios to work on
building scale models of a living
space or dive deeper into the subject
through personalized lesson plans called
playlists think of your playlist as your
textbook but instead of it being every
child gets the same textbook each child
gets their own textbook that is composed
of different chapters well right now I
have this playlist about being mindful
of my scale maybe there's like a chapter
that's on math but there's five
different levels of math so maybe you
get level three math maybe you get level
five math and when I click the I'm done
button I send it to my teacher so my
teacher receives
it with students working independently
Courtney has time to see who needs help
like student Juan Martin who is
struggling to find the right ratio for
his scale
model now you don't teach these 35
students all the same curriculum you
teach these 35 students the thing that
that helps them with their core skills
and it lines up with their passions show
me how we're repeating these
units in this model the educ moves a
little bit away from being a direct
teacher and more towards being an
education
facilitator why can't I do 5times
10 what's stopping you not sure what
does 5 time 10 mean when Juan Martin
realizes that one inch on his model can
represent 5T at full scale it all comes
together oh so that's
why thanks think we did it we're not
trying to reduce educator time we're
trying to improve the the value of their
time niace job