"Envisioning the Graduate of the Future" is a Course materials drawn from MIT Open Learning and catalogued under Arts, Music & Design for High School (9–12). From the source: Embark on a collaborative and exploratory design process to reflect on the purpose of secondary school. Create a shareable artifact that conveys what you and your community believe a secondary school graduate should know and… Slide Collection preserves the upstream link, the original creator credit and the licensing terms; download the file to use it in a classroom, study group or revision plan.
About this presentation
Embark on a collaborative and exploratory design process to reflect on the purpose of secondary school. Create a shareable artifact that conveys what you and your community believe a secondary school graduate should know and be able to do.
How to study this deck
Arts decks teach by example. Don't just look at the works on each slide — describe them out loud in formal terms (composition, palette, line, rhythm) before reading the lecturer's analysis. Your description sharpens your eye.
High-school audiences can handle the full vocabulary and most of the formal reasoning, but the deck still benefits from explicit "why does this matter?" framing at section breaks.
Five questions to test your understanding
- What is the single most important claim on the first three slides, and what evidence is offered for it?
- Which slide could you remove without losing the argument? Which slide is load-bearing?
- Where does the deck switch from definitions to applications? Mark that transition.
- What would a student who already disagreed with the conclusion need to see to be convinced?
- Which two slides, if combined, would give the clearest one-slide summary of the whole deck?
Where this deck fits in the wider catalogue
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