Beyond Measure was a screening held by Mya Dunlop, whose son created MyloWrites. Beyond Measure talks about the curriculum that most schools have attached themselves to in recent years called “teaching to the test.” Teaching to the test is when everything you learn is about a test you will take. Instead of projects they spend their time learning how to read the questions on the test. Often times these leads to a shallow knowledge based on memorization instead of comprehension. It focused on a few schools, most notably, High Tech High in San Diego and a public school in rural Kentucky. High Tech. High is a test free project based school. They have hours of  time each day to focus on a project relating to their curriculum. All of their classes are connected, their humanities is related to their physics which is related to math and so on. In the movie they made a clock project that used their physics to design it and their humanities because it was supposed to represent the rise and fall of an ancient civilization.  The school in Kentucky meanwhile is a more traditional one by nature, but they’re are trying to integrate a more High Tech High approach into their classrooms. It doesn’t take with the students at first. They are so used to their years of being taught exactly what’s on a test that they find the exercises seemed un-organized and strange. Some student pairs complained a lot about how they partner wasn’t doing any work, and how they didn’t understand what the project was. Another high school on the east coast had another approach. Thanks to a student another school had some of their students spend half their day working on a personal project for the whole year. One kid in the program was writing a novel, another was focusing on a photography series. This kids were all self-taught in their chosen fields, relying on each other and the resources they find themselves for information. Two colleges mimicked the situation between High Tech High and the school in Kentucky. Olin College, which is very project based, versus another very traditional and regular college. Olin was encouraging their students to take their curriculum and apply it to a huge project. At the more traditional school they were trying to find a way to apply the same method to one of their classes. What I’ve taken away from this movie is that we can’t just apply one tactic of learning to all the millions of children in the country. No one child learns the same, so we shouldn’t act like they do. Some kids benefit from a project based hands on learning experience, others are more auditory, enjoying lectures and talking, others still are visual and like to see things happen and see things drawn and demonstrated.