In class today we shared our thoughts after watching “Most Likely to Succeed” and I thought I would share some of our discussions around it.

The overall consensus was that we all loved the film and were so inspired by the type of learning they did in High School High. It was a fresh and exciting approach to education with a project based learning and assessment. It was so great to see the use of multiliteracies and cross curricular systems in school. Which relates very well to our other courses we are currently taking, so it gives us great real-life examples of how these are applied.

However, we did see some holes with the boy who was in charge of his group for the rise and fall of civilization project. Some of us thought that maybe the teacher should have stepped in sooner to help put the boy get on track and advise him to not make it so complex with the time frame they had. But on the other hand, he probably would not have learned the same hard lessons if the teacher had stepped in.

It was also important to note how the system they were using in High School High had not been in use for very long, so there is not sufficient research to support that this way of learning is effective over the “normal” system in schools. 

After watching this film, it definitely opened my eyes to different ways of learning and assessing in schools. It also gave me the opportunity to begin wondering how I can implement some of these ideas into my teaching one day.

We also discussed Privacy and Safety principles, including FIPPA. It was insightful to learn about this and then read all about on my own time after class. We also spent a little time discussing copyright and intellectual property. I used my knowledge of this in this post by using a picture from unsplash.com. This website allows you to use their pictures without worrying about copyright.