67. Revolutionizing the Educational Experience for Young Minds with Ana Lorena Fabrega

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Dive into our conversation with Ana Lorena Febrega, known for her work in changing how we think about teaching and learning.

Ana, who worked closely with Synthesis, shares her journey from being a student across the globe to pushing the boundaries of education beyond traditional methods. She talks about the need for creativity, curiosity, and the ability to think critically from a young age.

Ana discusses Synthesis's role, inspired by Elon Musk's school at SpaceX, in creating education that fits the future's needs. She talks about soft skills, learning from failure, and project-based education as keys to preparing kids for a world that's always changing.

For parents and teachers wanting to bring new ways of learning into children's education, Ana gives solid advice. She stresses the importance of letting kids have control, make mistakes, and explore their interests deeply.

This chat is packed with ideas for anyone interested in giving children tools to succeed in tomorrow’s world.

Ana Lorena Fábrega is an author, edupreneur, and Chief Evangelist at Synthesis, the education company scaling up the best ideas from Elon Musk’s lab school at SpaceX. Growing up, she attended ten schools in seven different countries. She then earned her BS in Childhood Education and Special Education from New York University and taught elementary school in New York, Boston, and Panama. Today, Ana Lorena writes online to over 300,000 readers about the promise of alternative education.

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0:00.0	Before we get started, a brief reminder that any and all opinions and views shared by hosts and guests on this podcast are the speaker's own and do not represent the views of Primal Kitchen or its affiliates or parent company.
0:09.0	A big thing that I've learned, you know, in this past years that I've been in the alternative education world was that before I was like online education, big no-no.
0:16.0	I've been a teacher. I understand how important it is for kids to feel like there's a caring human on the other side.
0:20.9	So I was like, this is never going to work.
0:22.2	But I was very surprised because what I realized is online education, what it does is it delivers things more tailored to you and faster
0:29.1	so that you're not in school for seven hours a day.
0:31.3	Because it's not true that kids are learning for seven hours a day.
0:33.5	We know that their attention spans are very short. You can't have a kid, you know, trying to pay attention to you for 45 minutes.
0:38.3	They're not going to.
0:39.3	You can deliver this that's according to their attention spans fast, to the point, applicable, relevant, exciting.
0:45.3	Then they have the rest of the day to do other things.
0:47.3	Like, that's really exciting.
0:48.3	That's the kind of education I would have wanted as a kid, right?
1:02.0	Hey everyone. Today I'm super excited to be joined by Anna Lorena Fabrega.
1:05.0	She's an educator, which means an entrepreneur in the education space.
1:09.0	And chief evangelist at synthesis, the education company
1:11.6	scaling up the best ideas from Elon Musk's lab school at SpaceX. Growing up, she attended
1:17.0	10 schools in seven different countries. She then earned her BS in childhood education and special
1:21.8	education from New York University and taught elementary school in New York, Boston, and Panama.
1:27.1	Today, Anna Loreno writes online to over 300,000 readers about the promise of alternative
1:31.7	education.
1:33.4	Let's get into it.
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