big picture videos
- (YouTube video, ~9 min) News clip of Sudbury Valley School
- (YouTube video, ~16 min) The decline of play | Peter Gray | TEDxNavesink
- (YouTube video, ~19 min) School is optional: Ken Danford at TEDxAmherstCollege (North Star teen learning center)
- (YouTube video, ~3 min) Finish School System (Finland, high-ranking nation by student performance)
- (YouTube video, ~11 min) Hackschooling makes me happy | Logan LaPlante | TEDxUniversityofNevada
- (YouTube video, ~23 min) Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud
- (YouTube video, ~21 min) You don’t legally have to go to school. (humorous British perspective, with a look at Sudbury)
- (YouTube video, ~17 min content) Bring on the learning revolution! | Sir Ken Robinson
- (YouTube video, ~1 hr 24 min) Peter Gray: Self Directed Education. What Is It, How Does It Work?
more from Peter Gray
- (Audio, ~57 min) The Luminous Mind: Episode 173 – Peter Gray, Freedom to LEARN
more on the Sudbury model
- (YouTube video, ~13 min) Sudbury Valley School – Focus and Intensity
- (YouTube video, ~59 min) What Sudbury Valley is About with Daniel Greenberg
- (YouTube video, ~39 min) Sudbury Valley School on People are Talking hosted by Tom Bergeron
more on North Star model
“Learning is Natural, School is Optional”
- (Audio, ~50 min) The Luminous Mind: Episode 180 – Kenneth Danford, Giving Others a Model to Follow
- (YouTube video, ~23 min) “Liberated Learners Network” – Ken Danford – 2017 Education Options Expo
- (YouTube video, ~14 min) Self-Directed Learning for Teens – Nationwide! – Ken Danford – North Star Co-Founder
more on Agile Learning Centers
more perspectives
- (Films for Action video, ~1 hr 5 min) Schooling the World (2010) (illustrating how schooling helps to generate poverty and destroy sustainable cultures and human flourishing)
- We do not mean to imply that indigenous cultures are better or that modern life is worse; we mean to indicate that there are more ways for cultures to mix than this simple schooling model. Schooling in its common forms creates an uncreative monoculture and an oversupply of certain skills and strategies (which economically devalues the individuals it affects) and prevents development of the sorts of varieties in culture that would form if people were free (or felt free) to pursue their own interests.
art with a message
- (YouTube video, ~3 min) Don’t Stay in School by Boyinaband
miscellaneous
- (YouTube video, ~5 min) When Does Your Brain Stop Developing?
- To be taken with a large grain of salt; cultural values and skills can tremendously influence development. After all, ultimately, genes and experiences work together to construct brain architecture.