Young people are desperate for learning that is relevant
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Archive for the 'Mind Dump'
Teachers v. billionaires
David Sirota says: The pervasive media mythology tells us that the fight over the schoolhouse is...
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Civics classes are not the solution to the civics crisis
Ethan Zuckerman says: If we conclude that civics is in crisis, there’s a hard question to...
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Perfectly preparing a generation for its own history
David Warlick says: The fallacy of competitive education is its obsession with remembered right...
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Are we going to test the daylights out of me?
Iowa high school student Jack Hostager says: Are you going to do what makes you look good or work...
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Textbooks amplify student disinterest in reading
Textbooks are unbelievably dull and dense … no one should scratch their head at...
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Educational technology hasn’t [yet] made deep, lasting changes on schooling
It’s hard to look back over the last four decades and find ways that education technology has...
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Three competing visions of educational technology. Which is yours?
Gary Stager says: There are three competing visions of educational computing. Each bestows agency...
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You aren’t literate anymore
At what point do we stop talking about digital literacy and recognize that people who cannot apply...
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We thrive when we learn according to ourselves
We thrive when we learn according to ourselves; we wither when we learn at the beck and call of...
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