Re: Mexico school story

Posted by Scott on October 16, 2013, 7:36 am, in reply to "Re: Mexico school story"
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It isn't about the teacher unions or scoring political points. And this especially isn't about what people feel or believe their gut feeling tells them about education. This is about sound educational research. Online learning has been proven effective for procedural skills - things like rebuilding an engine, how do you figure an average vs. a mean, what are the procedures to operate a machine. What online learning ignores is social learning. A significant part of our learning is a product of interactions with other humans. There is a large and significant body of research on this topic. More than 100 years of research that some people just want to ignore. Much of our cognitive development is a process. To claim online learning schemes such as the Khan Academy are a new paradigm that will shake up the unions or "fix failing schools" is not based on any research. It is a political claim. And, let's be honest, a scheme to capture a chunk of education dollars by hardware and software for-profit companies. The research is very clear: online learning has a place in education, but it also has very significant limitations that must not be ignored if one wants a quality education. To claim otherwise is not based in sound science.

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