What Kind of Learning?

By 2020, this virtual reality will come with embedded narration. What kid should still be seeing the Burghers on a page, reading their story in text?

And could we get a narrator their own age? Of color?

How can we very easily improve high school curriculum?

Let's take an example from cultural literacy and the arts.

In a typical high school, arts can get left behind. Some minor exposure to the most famous of the classical artists may have occurred in middle school; a few may have been given a pull-out section in the freshmen world history text. But there's nearly no chance that the average teen got a refresher on art history any time past age 15.

How could we remedy that?

In a few hours, a teen could rapidly advance their knowledge of the most referenced artists, works of art, and art techniques.

Khan Academy, widely known for it's high school math classes, helps millions of teens around the world to master, or at least improve at, Algebra and Geometry. Few people know they offer a massive repository of art history.

• Art 1010 - Art History Basics
• Tools for Understanding Art
• Required works of art for AP* Art History

Let's crowd-source a mini-curriclum based on this amazing resource. Chose, say 25 great works of art that a teen could learn over a January snow-day weekend? Engage the regional and local arts communities to help mentor. And offered teens 0.1 Carnegie Units for doing so.

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