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Nominated for the U.S. Secretary of Education by Diane Ravitch and lauded as an “emerging voice of his generation,” at age 17, Nikhil Goyal is the author of One Size Does Not Fit All: A Student’s Assessment of School by the Alternative Education Resource Organization. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, Fox and Friends, FOX Business: Varney & Co., NBC Nightly News, and Huffington Post.
Nikhil has spoken to thousands at conferences and TEDx events around the world from Qatar to Spain and has guest lectured at Baruch College in New York.
He is leading a Learning Revolution movement to transform the American school system. A senior at Syosset High School, Nikhil lives with his family in Woodbury, New York.
To contact, email him at ngoyal2013@gmail.com.
- Location:
- United States, Woodbury, NY
- Current organization:
- Learning Revolution
- Current role:
- Student
- Gender:
- Male
- Areas of expertise:
- Education Reform
- My website links:
- Nikhil Goyal's Blog
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A comment on Conversation: How can design-driven and vocational education improve our schools and communities? Join our live Q&A on Feb 5th at 3PM
I'd love to hear more about how you used resources and opportunities in the community for children to learn from.
In addition, today, schools largely resemble prisons. What are the best design principles to transform schools to more open and accessible?
A comment on Conversation: Does society need more interdisciplinary work? Or more well-rounded individuals working together?
I am a student at Syosset High School in Long Island, New York. I am writing a book on education reform — Time to Think Different: Why America Needs a Learning Revolution.
A comment on Conversation: What should the 21st century classroom look like? Could interactive technology provide solutions to the current system of education?
http://www.good.is/post/is-sweden-s-classroom-free-school-the-future-of-learning?utm_content=prev-next&utm_medium=post-page-top :
The traditional setup of school classrooms—straight rows of desks with accompanying chairs—doesn't do much to foster creativity or collaboration. Many experts have proposed redesigning classroom furniture, but a Swedish school system wants to take things a step further. Vittra, which operates 30 schools in Sweden, is seeking to ensure learning takes place everywhere on campus by eliminating classrooms altogether.
A comment on Conversation: What should the 21st century classroom look like? Could interactive technology provide solutions to the current system of education?
We must reform the classroom, a relic from the Industrial Revolution. Classrooms are structured in educating kids by making them sit in desks, shut down, and hear the teacher passively. It is based on the fallacy that efficient delivery of content is equal to effective learning. Research demands a personalized education mode. Let’s design a 21st century classroom. Scientists have concluded that there exists a close correlation between human productivity and space design. Facebook and Google are your evidence.
Prakash Nair, an architect and school planner, writes in Education Week that there is a conglomerate of design principles for tomorrow’s schools. (1) personalized; (2) safe and secure; (3) inquiry-based; (4) student-directed; (5) collaborative; (6) interdisciplinary; (7) rigorous and hands-on; (8) embodying a culture of excellence and high expectations; (9) environmentally conscious; (10) offering strong connections to the local community and business; (11) globally networked; and (12) setting the stage for lifelong learning. A revolution is brewing!