EP 72 - Online Schooling for The 21st Century
EP 72 - Online Schooling for The 21st Century
Feat. Victoria Ransom, Founder of Prisma
This interview is part of the series of research interviews on the education crisis and how we can solve it. If you want to hear the other experts, please see our education thesis.
Let's bring joy and relevance back to learning.
Our guest Victoria Ransom, Founder & CEO of Prisma, the world's first connected learning network for K-12 that fully replaces regular school.
Victoria's track record as a serial entrepreneur comes from developing 3 companies including Wildfire, which was acquired by Google in 2012 for $450 Million.
But after having 3 children, Victoria and her husband and cofounder Alain Chuard, wondered, could they prepare their children to thrive in a tumultuous, ever-changing world?
So they set out to reimagine what school could be.
And today, Victoria is going share what she discovered was wrong with traditional education and how Prisma was designed to change this paradigm.
What You Will Learn In This Episode
What are the problems of today's education system
How to personalize a student's learning and scale it for others
How to foster a community of learners online in engaging experiences
How to decide big problems worth solving
and much more...
Full show notes, transcripts, and resources can be found here: evolvethe.world/episodes/72
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Timestamps
(00:00) - Introduction
(01:22) - What are the problems of today's education system
(05:31) - How to research education from an outside perspective
(07:40) - How school funding and higher education influence K-12 education
(10:24) - What is Prisma?
(14:10) - What is the purpose of education?
(15:23) - A day in the life of a Prisma learner
(19:56) - How to personalize a student's learning
(23:16) - How to scale personalized learning
(28:02) - Curating vs creating educational content
(31:43) - How to celebrate student learning
(34:37) - Badges vs grades
(37:36) - How to foster a community of learners online
(40:16) - Creating engaging online experiences for students
(45:32) - Results of Prisma learning
(49:42) - How has Prisma's model changed
(53:40) - How to decide problems worth solving
(58:26) - How to launch a company during a recession
(1:02:17) - How Prisma built their team of educators
(1:03:48) - Call to Action
(1:04:16) - How we can push the world to Evolve