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Entire countries serve as guinea-pigs in large-scale social experiments. [...]the advantages and disadvantages of new technologies are never distributed evenly among the population. [...]embedded in every technology there are one or more powerful ideas—and biases. [...]in can be argued that separating learning from our everyday life, building it around curricula developed by "experts,” breaking the day into 50-min periods around disciplines, and assessing students and school via standardized tests are all fundamentally historically contingent decisions that do not stand much scrutiny. [...]television allows us to be part of a global village, to share and understand the world visually and powerfully and the Internet has just sped that along with the ability to communicate, engage with others across the globe in real time.
ABSTRACT
Highlights • The COVID-19 pandemic provides an opportunity to create new school systems that are centered around a humanizing curriculum. • A humanizing curriculum values self, social, and cultural knowledge in addition to academic knowledge, celebrating students as whole human beings who are learning about and creating their place in society. • This curriculum is co-created and co-implemented with students and families. • Through this co-creation and co-implementation process, we shift school systems to support a humanizing curriculum.