Flipping the Classroom

Kids at Dojos should not be forced into standardised courses where everyone has to conform to the same standards at the same point in time. We can instead produce online content which can be accessed and assimilated by children at home which gives them an increase in their knowledge which they can then bring to the group and interact in a spontaneous manner except this time with a lot more knowledge already under their belt.

- Youtube Salman Khan talking about the inverted classroom

It would great to create an opensource and dynamic map of learning progression where kids can track their learning with a basic understanding of dependency (e.g. if you want to do relational database programming with sql you need to have an understanding of html, php, sql queries, phpmyadmin? and relational databases). You can see how khan academy has already created a map such as this for the subject of mathematics

Khan Academy Dashboard

the most important thing is that kids teach kids much more effectively than a single mentor could ever impart knowledge. This is slightly terrifying for those trained in standard pedagogical methods. Instead we need to utilise the grandma method of open encouragement with only limited structured lecture, this video is really great.

Child driven education - Ted Talk Sugatra Mitra