January 21, 2011 | 10:00 AM | By

Students Learn at Their Own Pace in the Future School Day

FILED UNDER: Learning Methods, Christopher Rush, School Day of the Future, School of One

School of One

Each student learns at his or her own pace in the ideal school day of the future, according to Christopher Rush, co-founder of the School of One.

In practice, this is already happening with the New York school pilot program. A student arrives in school in the morning and answers five questions that will be calculated in a customized algorithm to figure out what she’ll be doing that day. That algorithm will decide which teacher she’ll work with, her level of learning based on what she learned the previous day, and her specific activities.

The movement toward personalized instructions has been around for a while, but maybe it’s technology that can help get to that goal.

I asked Rush to elaborate further:

[Filmed by Ifanyi Bell]

Click here to see more stories and videos in the School Day of the Future series.

    Related posts:

    1. School of One Revolutionizes Traditional Classroom Model
    2. School of One Revolutionizes Traditional Classroom Model
    3. Envision the School Day of the Future

  • http://www.facebook.com/icyydummyhere Vanessa Lee

    Hey that picture is Mr. Bungeroth

  • Josh

    Preach it man, preach it. I am also a middle school student, and sometimes I comprehend and learn things faster that my fellow classmates and quite frankly, its plain annoying. You basicly burn a whole class re-learning something, when you could be learning a whole new lesson. That said, Mr. Rush, yopu sir, are my new best friend haha.

  • Concepcion Olavarrieta

    The School of One is amazing.  I’m from abroad and I’ll be in New York from the 15 till the 20th. I want to see the possibility of meeting Chris Rush for promoting  the program in my country.  Please contact me at olav@prodigy.net.mx