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30 Mar 08

Noted edutech skeptic, Dan Meyer, talks about his experience using technology in the form of an Excel spreadsheet, and reflects on how it went.

- We can debate the merits of my state's content standards, fine, but you can't ask me to defy my employers, simultaneously setting my students up to fail in their next class, all so BJ Nesbitt won't think I'm a lousy teacher. I mean, if that's integral to the master plan, we have some work to do. [back]
- For serious: if I never saw another stony-faced child staring grimly at the camera, holding a hand-scrawled sign denouncing her out-of-touch, digital-immigrant teacher for not letting her SMS her iPod playlist to her Facebook group (or whatever) during class it would be too soon. [back]
- Really, if you can show me gains along any of those vectors without losing the others, you'll be my valentine. [back]