EDvent Calendar: Day 3 (The Barefoot School)

Barefoot School
Bunker Roy talks about why he turned his back on a potentially prosperous future as a lawyer or a doctor to start a school where you can stay for a day or a lifetime and people with degrees are disqualified from entering:

Infographic: mobile phones and teenagers

This is a pretty comprehensive run-down of mobile phone use by teenagers. Some points to note:

• 40% use phones to do last-minute study before exams
• 88% text during class time (despite this being 'banned'- are you winning the war on this?)
• Scary: 25% have been at one end of 'sexting' or the other. Woah!
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Let me tell you about our school

Albany Senior High School (ASHS) opened on February 3 2009 with 242 year 11 students. It's NZ's first state-funded senior high school and has some rather cool features. As you may have seen, we're an open-source school, but we also have flexible learning communities (no shoebox classrooms here), and a curriculum for the 21st century that includes student-directed, project-based learning and dedicated tutorial time. Our permanent campus site is a flurry of activity as our building (below) is constructed, ready for us to move into in February 2009.