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Education World ® Technology Center: Assessing Classroom Technology Integration - 0 views

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How to Summon Your Child's Inner Coder: 10 Questions With Raspberry Pi Inventor Eben Up... - 1 views

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How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses | Wired Busine... - 6 views

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Decentralized systems have proven to be more productive and agile than rigid, top-down ones
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And yet the dominant model of public education is still fundamentally rooted in the industrial revolution that spawned it, when workplaces valued punctuality, regularity, attention, and silence above all else.
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We don’t openly profess those values nowadays, but our educational system—which routinely tests kids on their ability to recall information and demonstrate mastery of a narrow set of skills—doubles down on the view that students are material to be processed, programmed, and quality-tested. School administrators prepare curriculum standards and “pacing guides” that tell teachers what to teach each day. Legions of managers supervise everything that happens in the classroom; in 2010 only 50 percent of public school staff members in the US were teachers.
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In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the top three skills in demand were teamwork, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills
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Teachers provide prompts, not answers, and then they step aside
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“schools in the cloud,”
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There will be no teachers, curriculum, or separation into age groups—just six or so computers and a woman to look after the kids’ safety. His defining principle: “The children are completely in charge.”
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as the kids blasted through the questions, they couldn’t help noticing that it felt easy, as if they were being asked to do something very basic.
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Randy Rodgers on 30 Oct 13

Must. Read. Such a valuable lesson and another example of how we are doing it wrong.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Must. Read. Such a valuable lesson and another example of how we are doing it wrong.</div>

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