Who Will Lead the Revolution?

There is a ground swell occurring.

There are actually many ground swells but the one I referring to is in the realm of K-12 education.

Startups are making in roads toward better ways to learn languages, math, science and creation (aka the real skill of 21st century success stories).

Those startup are led by 20 and 30 somethings who are sick of seeing our youth waste 6–8 hours every day in a faux prison system.

While the early pioneers of change have been nimble companies I think there’s another cavalry of leaders coming soon…students themselves.

For this to reach critical mass students must stop letting adults do all the talking. They need to stand up and join in the chorus for change.

Allow me to lead you along a hypothetical. Say a group of students passed around a petition to change one hour of the school day into an open block of creation and collaboration. They took that petition to the school’s principal and discussed the merits of everyone dropping their least favorite class and picking this hour of creation up instead.

What would happen?

In 2005 and every year before that the principal would laugh and tell they to get moving to 4th period.

But I think 2015 is a little different. With the right tools and a cohesive vision the Internet is enabling change on a scale never before seen.

The merits of this idea are solid. Who would fault a student body for wanting to try a less boring way to spend the day? Why stop them from doing something that will motivate them to work a little harder than AP Calculus does?

I’d like to write an e-book for students to join the revolution. A primer to get everyone on the same page, advancing the same agenda, posing the same sort of questions.

Wanna help?