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daniel rezac

Rival Philosophies, Both Compelling - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by daniel rezac on 22 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Is there an app for improving America’s educational system? Will watching a PowerPoint presentation about the nation’s educational challenge help to understand the opportunities and difficulties facing the country?
  • Two college dropouts, Steve Jobs (Reed College) and Bill Gates (Harvard University) have articulated theories about education. And their viewpoints are as different as are their companies (Apple and Microsoft, respectively), presenting a contrast in style and philosophy.
  • Gates hopes to analyze and adjust the education system in order to produce a more efficient and effective learning environment.
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  • Jobs is focused more on individual learning and less on systemic education. Technology is his way to get a well-integrated mind flowing in multiple directions. His learning philosophy gives each person the ability to chart his own course.
  • Gates’ recent speech to the nation’s governors stressed assessment, measuring outcomes and tracking students’ progress. Technology and benchmarking are joined at the hip
  • Jobs’ approach allows for individual experimentation to find a unique solution to each person’s quest. It is the symbol of intellectual multi-tasking. This is a more experimental, integrated search for a holistic view of the universe, one that has multiple access points. Each student becomes his or her own teacher.
  • Gates is studying the science of education. Jobs is creating the art of learning. I’m sure there is an app for teaching arithmetic by watching the heavens and counting the stars
James O'Hagan

Pascack Valley Regional High School District in northern New Jersey goes high-tech, giv... - 0 views

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shared by James O'Hagan on 28 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • If you were to walk around our classes, you’d see students using Google Docs to share documents, to peer edit their papers. You’d walk into a science classroom and they may be using a Wiki space so that they can their data that they’re getting from an experiment
  • Now we’ve had students that have been collaborating on projects with students in Taiwan, China, and we have an Italian class that holds class very early in the morning every Friday morning with a school in Italy
  • Basically, in every class, we’re using laptops to take notes on Microsoft Word
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 28 Mar 11
       
      That is an AWFUL lead in!
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