This link has been bookmarked by 63 people . It was first bookmarked on 12 Nov 2011, by William Gaskins.
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03 Mar 13
Karen Vitek"So I hope no one minds if I continue to try to document the ways in which “education” is being reframed in this country at the peril, I think, of losing everything that is best about schools and teachers and classrooms."
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S J RRT @literateowl: “education” is being reframed in ... USA of losing everything that is best about schools and teachers and classrooms ht ...
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So I hope no one minds if I continue to try to document the ways in which “education” is being reframed in this country at the peril, I think, of losing everything that is best about schools and teachers and classrooms.
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So I hope no one minds if I continue to try to document the ways in which “education” is being reframed in this country at the peril, I think, of losing everything that is best about schools and teachers and classrooms.
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27 Nov 11
William Ferriter"The author would like us to believe that education is being “radically rethought” by the online and “blended” options that are available to students. But let’s be clear; the only things being rethought here are the delivery models of a traditional education and, most importantly, the financial models to sustain it and make lots of money for outside businesses who see technology and access as a way to not only line their pockets with taxpayer money but also bust the unions that stand in their way. "
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Craig SeasholesWill delivers consistently thoughtful commentary on teaching and online learning.
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“My Teacher is an App”
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Katie DerrahThis guy's blog seems really interesting so far. I've been thinking a lot lately about the relationship between technology and education- it's both exciting and so frightening! This also links to the recent WSJ article he references.
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15 Nov 11
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koroghcm usA commentary on the Wall Street Journal article touting virtual/online schools. From inside education, I'm not sure that many see what is going on and connecting the dots. Things are starting to form a pattern that may mean drastic changes in education in the future. If even 50 students leave a school district to attend a virtual school, the money follows them and may have severe economic consequences on the students still attending the public school. What does that mean for public schools? Should they be opening up virtual schools to retain the state funding?
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Patti Porto"So I hope no one minds if I continue to try to document the ways in which “education” is being reframed in this country at the peril, I think, of losing everything that is best about schools and teachers and classrooms.
If you’re not up to speed with these reframing efforts, the above titled article in the Wall Street Journal this morning should do the trick. The canary is singing in full throat. And let’s not make any bones about it: the Journal has a vested interest in making the type of online learning it describes successful as it owns a large stake in many of the vendors trying to occupy the space." -
14 Nov 11
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The author would like us to believe that education is being “radically rethought” by the online and “blended” options that are available to students. But let’s be clear; the only things being rethought here are the delivery models of a traditional education and, most importantly, the financial models to sustain it and make lots of money for outside businesses who see technology and access as a way to not only line their pockets with taxpayer money but also bust the unions that stand in their way.
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He gave it a quick scan and clicked ahead to the quiz, flipping between the article and multiple-choice questions until he got restless and wandered into the kitchen for a snack.
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Florida began requiring all public-high-school students to take at least one class online, partly to prepare them for college cybercourses. Idaho soon will require two
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Although some states and local districts run their own online schools, many hire for-profit corporations
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A teacher in a traditional high school might handle 150 students. An online teacher can supervise more than 250, since he or she doesn’t have to write lesson plans and most grading is done by computer.
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n Idaho, Alan Dunn, superintendent of the Sugar-Salem School District, says that he may cut entire departments and outsource their courses to online providers. “It’s not ideal,” he says. “But Idaho is in a budget crisis, and this is a creative solution.”
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Look, not for nothing, but if we don’t start writing and advocating for a very different vision of learning in real classrooms, one that is focused not just on doing the things we’ve been doing better but in ways that are truly reinvented, one that prepares kids to be innovators and designers and entrepreneurs and, most importantly, learners, we will quickly find ourselves competing at scale with cheaper, easier alternatives that won’t serve our kids as well.
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direct instruction and standardization will make us less competitive, not more
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That those strategies will make our kids less able to create a living for themselves in the worlds they will live in
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the same type of rethink that newspapers and media and businesses and others are undergoing.
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speak up
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not about the wonders of technology but about the changed landscape of literacies and skills and dispositions that the current system, online or off, is not able to provide to our kids in its current iteration
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I too get nervous when I read the word "personalization" in conjunction with gaming or testing services. Truthfully, I'm not sure there isn't a place for those systems to augment the work that teachers are doing, but I know that I am not interested in having these systems turn teachers into technicians simply following a script, or worse replacing them all together.
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There is no replacement for the relationship between a teacher and her students. That does not have to be compromised just because it takes place in a virtual classroom as opposed to a brick and mortar one.
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I have to wonder, at what point will "my professional development is an app". If we continue to espouse the virtues of free web tools and top apps for the classroom, doesn't it seem a logical next step to replace face-to-face professional development with time to search for new apps?
Part of rethinking education is rethinking professional development.
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13 Nov 11
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one that prepares kids to be innovators and designers and entrepreneurs and, most importantly, learners, we will quickly find ourselves competing at scale with cheaper, easier alternatives that won’t serve our kids as well.
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That schools can be places of wonder and exploration and inquiry and creation, not just force fed curriculum 75% of which our kids will forget within months of consuming it. That learning and reform as they are currently being defined are both nothing of the sort.
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beth gourley"So I hope no one minds if I continue to try to document the ways in which “education” is being reframed in this country at the peril, I think, of losing everything that is best about schools and teachers and classrooms....But let’s be clear; the only thi
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12 Nov 11
Dave TrussI think we’ve all got to stop cranking out blog posts and Tweets that tout new tools and the “10 Best Ways…” and instead begin to make the case in our blogs and in person that technology or not, this is about what is best for our kids. That in this moment, 20th Century rules will not work for 21st Century schools.
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I think we’ve all got to stop cranking out blog posts and Tweets that tout new tools and the “10 Best Ways…” and instead begin to make the case in our blogs and in person that technology or not, this is about what is best for our kids. That in this moment, 20th Century rules will not work for 21st Century schools.
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You are the lead learner in your community.
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Joe WoodIf you’re not up to speed with these reframing efforts, the above titled article in the Wall Street Journal this morning should do the trick. The canary is singing in full throat. And let’s not make any bones about it: the Journal has a vested interest in making the type of online learning it describes successful as it owns a large stake in many of the vendors trying to occupy the space.
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The author would like us to believe that education is being “radically rethought” by the online and “blended” options that are available to students. But let’s be clear; the only things being rethought here are the delivery models of a traditional education and, most importantly, the financial models to sustain it and make lots of money for outside businesses who see technology and access as a way to not only line their pockets with taxpayer money but also bust the unions that stand in their way.
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To be honest, I think we’ve all got to stop cranking out blog posts and Tweets that tout new tools and the “10 Best Ways…” and instead begin to make the case in our blogs and in person that technology or not, this is about what is best for our kids. That in this moment, 20th Century rules will not work for 21st Century schools. That direct instruction and standardization will make us less competitive, not more. That those strategies will make our kids less able to create a living for themselves in the worlds they will live in. That as difficult as it may be for some to come to terms with, this moment requires a whole scale “radical rethink” in much different terms from the one J
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“My Teacher is an App.” Really? If that’s fine with you, stay silent. If not, I don’t think it’s ever been clearer where the lines are being drawn.
You are the lead learner in your community. Not Jeb Bush. Not Rupert Murdoch. Not Pearson. You.
Lead.
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But let’s be clear; the only things being rethought here are the delivery models of a traditional education and, most importantly, the financial models to sustain it and make lots of money for outside businesses who see technology and access as a way to not only line their pockets with taxpayer money but also bust the unions that stand in their way.
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