Skillshare is a learning community where
people can learn real-world skills from
anyone anywhere all over the world when
I happened upon Scotia I was sort of
blown away by this idea that learning
can mean so many different things to so
many different people we started with
offline local classes where people can
just raise their hand and say they want
to teach something and gather people
locally in their community to teach them
that skill before going online we really
studied the local classes and the
behavior of the students and the
teachers and we took that behavior to
inform the classroom model online the
real hurdle or challenge if I say it
that way was getting people to learn
from total strangers who weren't
accredited in any specific thing you
know learning how to make fried chicken
from just a great fried chicken maker as
opposed to the chef of X Y & Z
restaurant is a little bit of a paradigm
shift but once it took off it took off
the premise of skill shows to learn
real-world skills so not academic you
know history 101 this is I want to learn
how to cook I want to learn how to make
jewelry I want to learn design I don't
think that's culture whatever replace
traditional education that's definitely
not the goal the goal is to shake things
up a little bit hey I'm Abigail mazdan I
lead the education team mexico share
come hear what we have to say at the
future of learning panel at the 92y
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when you're learning those kind of
skills at 14 you are taking ownership
and responsibility of your education
process in a very different way than if
you are being told here's some facts
here's some things we're going to have a
test on Friday and then you're gonna
spew back that information