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1:1 tablets personalizedlearning critique debate Amplify joeklein
shared by Steve Ransom on 24 Sep 13
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Entrepreneurs
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disrupting an industry
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K-12 isn’t working
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or just to profit from it
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commercial opportunities
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Plenty of research does indeed show that an individual student will learn more if you can tailor the curriculum to match her learning style, pace and interests; the tablet, he said, will help teachers do that
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potential customers
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looking for higher test scores
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exploit
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“If it’s not transformative,” Klein told me, “it’s not worth it.”
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“Now your job is not to dispense knowledge,” Britt told the trainees. “It’s to facilitate learning. No longer is the teacher the bottleneck between students and knowledge. Rather, the teacher architects the environment — in the classroom, on the tablet, online, everywhere.”
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The Amplify tablet helps make personalization possible.
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It provides immediate feedback
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The teacher’s tablet also has an app blocker and monitoring functions that can see and control what’s happening on student tablets
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must equip our students to compete with counterparts in India and China
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magic bullets. “There are a lot of hucksters out there,” he said.
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apostles of disruption,
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depend on good teaching
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it can be easier to find money for cool new gadgets than for teachers.
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Companies with vested interests are pitching themselves as the solution to the country’s educational problems, he says, “but we don’t have research proving it’s true.”
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Where technology makes a difference, it tends to do so in places with a strong organization dedicated to improving teaching and where students closely engage with teachers and one another.
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Where technology makes a difference, it tends to do so in places with a strong organization dedicated to improving teaching and where students closely engage with teachers and one another.
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for sale to schools
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gaze tracking
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For data to work its magic, a student has to generate the necessary information by doing everything on the tablet.
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“We become smitten with the idea that there will be technological solutions to these knotty problems with education, but it happens over and over again that we stop talking to kids.”
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“You learn how to broadcast, which is not the same thing as what you and I are doing now. Posting strong opinions isn’t a conversation.”
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wouldn’t it make more sense to devote our resources to strengthening the teaching profession with better recruitment, training, support and pay? It seems misguided to try to improve the process of learning by putting an expensive tool in the hands of teachers we otherwise treat like the poor relations of the high-tech whiz kids who design the tool.
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What a convoluted mess. Important to see what's happening, trends and initiatives, and the marketing/big business vs. learning in these issues.