My top 12 threads of 2021 🤸🏽‍♀️ On mental models, gamification, decision making, and new ways to learn 🪡↗

We are not simply a class nor a game. We are a learning community ✨ When kids join Synthesis, they join a global ecosystem of builders that will experience a different kind of learning from the best peer network and adult mentors in the world. x.com/anafabrega11/s…↗

At @synthesischool we design games that help kids navigate the complexity and chaos that eventually unfolds in our lives. Kids develop a body of thinking tools—aka mental models—that they can use outside our games to make better decisions and solve real problems. Here's how👇🏼↗

In school we learn to play the status game, the grades game, the compliance game... These games may help us “win” the game of school, but won’t get us far in real life. To succeed in life, whatever that means to us, we need to master a different game... The *METAGAME* 👇🏼🧵↗

The path for Synthesis opened up six years ago when Elon Musk walked into parent-teacher conference night… Buckle up. It’s story time 🚀 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼↗

School: - Here’s what you’ll learn - Here’s what you’ll use to learn that - Here’s how you’ll show what you learned What actually works: - What do you want to learn? - What do you need to learn that? - How will you share what you learned?↗

Schools should look more like YCombinator. They *get* Project-Based Learning. In this thread, I'll talk about 10 things @ycombinator gets right about the future of childhood education. 👇↗

Let’s face it, our education system is obsolete. It’s outdated. It’s outrageous. It’s broken. New and bold alternatives are already being tested out there. My bet? Online education will have a groundbreaking impact in the way future generations learn. Here's why👇↗