Personalization, Backpacks Full of Cash, and Rock Star Teachers:

The Intersection of U.S. Education Policy, Technology, and Media Hype

Justin Reich#Berkman

@bjfr bit.ly/edtechresearcher

edtechresearcher.org

(h/t Larry Cuban)

(h/t Dan Meyer)

(h/t my childhood)

"When we try to pick out anything by itself we find that it is bound fast by a thousand invisible cords

to everything in the universe. " -John Muir

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PERSONALIZATION

Blended Learning

a formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through online delivery of content and instruction with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace and at least in part at a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home.

(Innosight Institute)

socially embedded, interest-driven, and oriented toward educational, economic, or political opportunity. Connected learning is realized when a young person is able to pursue a personal interest or passion with the support of friends and caring adults, and is in turn able to link this learning and interest to academic achievement, career success or civic engagement

(MacArthur Connected Learning)

ConnectedLearning

BLENDED LEARNING

Blended Learning

a formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through online delivery of content and instruction with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace and at least in part at a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home.

socially embedded, interest-driven, and oriented toward educational, economic, or political opportunity. Connected learning is realized when a young person is able to pursue a personal interest or passion with the support of friends and caring adults, and is in turn able to link this learning and interest to academic achievement, career success or civic engagement

ConnectedLearning

Blended Learning

a formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through online delivery of content and instruction with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace and at least in part at a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home.

http://youtu.be/RoGgxrCsCEQ?t=12s

SLIGHT DETOUR: UNBUNDLING

Unbundling the Teaching Professions

Direct Instruction

Pastoral Care

Designing Lessons

Assessing Student Understanding

Translating Assessments to Actionable Follow-up

Developing Curriculum

Answering Questions

Tutoring Students

Observing Other Teachers

Providing Physical Security of Children and School Property

Rockstar Teachers

Unbundling the Teaching Profession

http://youtu.be/PNUQInUkfoU

CONNECTED LEARNING

Blended Learning

a formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through online delivery of content and instruction with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace and at least in part at a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home.

socially embedded, interest-driven, and oriented toward educational, economic, or political opportunity. Connected learning is realized when a young person is able to pursue a personal interest or passion with the support of friends and caring adults, and is in turn able to link this learning and interest to academic achievement, career success or civic engagement

ConnectedLearning

http://vimeo.com/47188676#

Edward Thorndike

Education as Science of Delivery

John Dewey

Education as Life

“One cannot understand the history of education in the United States during the 20th century unless one realises that Edward L. Thorndike won and John Dewey lost.”

-Ellen Lagemann

Failed Attempts at Wikipedia

INDIVIDUALS

INDIVIDUAL VS GROUPCOMMUNITY

BATCH

IVAN ILLYCH: DESCHOOLING SOCIETY

"Opportunities for skill-learning can be vastly multiplied if we open the "market." This depends on matching the right teacher with the right student when he is highly motivated in an intelligent program, without the constraint of curriculum"

1. that one of the central problems of schools is that the batch processing of students limits development of intellect, maybe destroys humanity

2. that the proper unit of analysis of education is not the class or group but the individual

3. that technology enables the optimal allocation of learners to learning resources

4. that the proper mechanism for funding this kind of learning is redistributing education-earmarked tax dollars from school boards to individual students.

HISTORY

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edtechresearcherbjr795@mail.harvard.edu

@bjfr

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