Tyler Clementi's final hours; Loughner's suicidal act in Arizona. What are we to make of the relationship between violence, education, and the media? What are we to teach?
What's the future of privacy in the Web 2.0 world? Community? Protest? Reflections on the aftermath of Tyler Clementi's suicide and the end of Don't Ask Don' Tell
The belief at the time was that schools should require strong discipline and
that "children should not talk to one another; all communication should be
between the teacher and the class (Tyler, 1975)."
War I, as it soon would be called, would have a dramatic effect on education
Following the introduction of the Army's intelligence test, a "Testing Movement"
in education, became established and spread throughout the United States
He saw testing and "the holes in testing for memorization"
as a problem to study for life
The most important and comprehensive curriculum experiment ever carried on in
the United States..."
This methodology engages the student in a number of projects. The projects he
defined as "a purposeful activity carried to completion in a natural setting
most famous work was his "little" book Basic Principles of Curriculum and
Instruction
What educational purposes should the school seek to attain?
How can learning experiences be selected which are likely to be useful in
attaining these objectives?
How can learning experiences be organized for effective instruction?
How can the effectiveness of learning experiences be evaluated?
The fifth and final section describes "How a school or College staff may work
on curriculum building."
do not have clearly defined purposes
1.
Establish broad goals
or objectives.2. Classify the goals or objectives.3. Define objectives
in behavioral terms.4. Find situations in which achievement if objectives
can be shown.5. Develop or select measurement techniques.6. Collect
performance data.7. Compare performance data with behaviorally stated
objectives.
education as "an active process
It involves the active efforts of the learner himself."
The first of these was through direct instruction
Tyler's greatest gift to the field of education was the development of an
objectives-based evaluation model.
He delivers a rousing call for science teachers to ditch the jargon and extreme precision, and instead make science sing through stories and demonstrations.