structural change

On Facebook today, "Don't Fail Idaho" posted this infographic with the question, "What does Structural Change mean to you?"

In my opinion, structural change in education begins with Will Richardson's 19 bold ideas:

That was pretty fast. Here's the list in case you missed it:

Will Richardson’s 19 Bold Ideas...

1. Forget open book / phone tests.
   Let’s have open network assessments where students can use the tools they own and love for learning. School should not be a place where we force kids to unplug and disconnect from the world.
2. Stop wasting money on textbooks.
   Make your own texts with things like wikis.
3. Google yourself.
   If we’re not empowering ourselves and our students to be Google well, we’re not doing a good job.
4. Flip the power structure from adults to learners.
   Empower students with the tools and resources they need to go where they want to go and explore and develop their interests and passions.
5. Don’t do work for the classroom.
   Support learners in doing work that is worthy of, can exist in, and can change the world.
6. Stop telling kids to do their own work.
   That’s not reality any longer.  Support them in collaborating, interacting, and cooperating with others.
7. Learn first. Teach second.
   We must come into our classrooms knowing that we are learners first. If we think we are teachers first, we are not giving our students the powerful learning models they’ll need to be successful.
8. No more how-to workshops.
   Educators should know how to find out how to on their own. When we come together it should be to talk about how we are doing.
9. Share everything.
   The best work of you and your students should be shared online. This will help us all get better.
10. Ask questions you don’t know the answer to.
    The learning of high stakes tests with predetermined answers is not as powerful as the learning that comes from finding our own new and unique answers.
11. Believe that you want to be found by strangers on the internet.
    If you think kids aren’t going to interact with strangers on the internet, you’re wrong. Let’s embrace that and support kids in being smart when doing so and learning a lot about the minds they are meeting.
12. Rethink the role of the teacher.
    We should not be doing the same work that 20th century teachers did. Consider how technology can and should change our roles.
13. Toss the resume.
    No one cares about your resume anymore. The internet is the new resume. What will people find when they look at who you are online? That is what you should be focusing on.
14. Go beyond Google to learn.
    Build your personal learning network and learn with and from the people you know via places like Twitter and Facebook.
15. Go free and open source.
    We have a budget crises, yet schools are wasting millions on things that are offered for free.
16. Create an UnCommon Core.
    Don’t ask how you will meet the common core, empower kids to think about how they will change the world.
17. Stop delivering the curriculum.
    This is no longer necessary.  Information can be accessed without a teacher.  Move beyond delivery to discovery.
18. Be subversive.
19. Stand up and scream.
    Tell everyone that education is not about publishers and politicians but rather it’s about what students and parents want and how teachers can best give that to them.

So, what does structural change in education mean to you?