listening to him on future of ed w/ @stevehargadon
gary's site
does not like conflict - but is thought of as outspoken - it's because this matters to him
hard to be successful if you're really trying to help kids
in ed good ideas are incredibly fragile
papert - knowledge is a consequence of experience
edtech has become boat shows...
but it's about finding things that have never before been able in traditional curriculum (paraphrase, could be off)
90% of schooling is language arts vs experiences
computers can help you focus on so much more,, and allow kids to be scientists, and mathematicians and artists, ets.
we're only using a very small % of the computer's capacity
building simulations, making sense of large amts of data, exploring # theory, writing,
there have been a lot of examples, but tend to be shortlived because they are fragile, and things are short lived
hard to recommend schools for people to visit.
young people have a remarkable capacity for intensity
we all should be looking for opportunities for kids to build on that intensity
key elements of good 1 to 1:
john holt, john dewey, seymour papert
through 20th cent knew how to dewey in lang arts class, but that's it
personal computer - space for kids, they get to mess around - ownership of machine and ideas and processes
the teachers who get it - are ones who get the theory of learning
and progressive ed
best teachers that worked with in computers are ok with straying from the script.
not so much a window to the future but a magnifying glass
good teaching magnified by computers
starting a site - called dailypapert.com
papert -= the sweet spot for educators
consortium
BronStuckey: Wasn't it Alan Kay who said you can put a piano in every classroom and not make a school "musical" Why do we care so much about how many computer rather than how effectively used?
newby's welcome to the community as long as they are willing to imitate the actions and ? of the experts
your clout is based on the # of people that want to learn from you, be like you
online handouts
what's edtech:
3 priorities - all are for lobbying for money
gary says - aren't their some policy considerations
filtering and blocking
what should be the experience when a student and teacher sit by the computer, why are these experiences always just sitting around an expensive piece of paper
pd is ongoing
funny - suspect because of the potential
horn is a lobbyist that wants to raise money to put content on a computer??
dgende: Khan's Academy is good BUT perpetuates the lecture/sage on the stage/teacher-centered pedagogy
school of one: drill and practice software.. with playlists
230000 from gates, hornes thinktank - telling folks to defund public schools and replace it with computer programs that can increase class sizes. the carpe diem school, 100-200 kids in hs age, taught by machine
computers are being used to reinforce the idea of status quo, but by using buzz words like personalized we're masking that we are becoming less humane
innovation is not a synonym for cheaper
those who know true edtech - need to scream it out
how can we move tech to better problem solving than content pushing
competition is based on the idea that ed is a scarce resource.. completely wrong
for one kid to succeed - others have to fail
how to increase # of eds that get it...
shameless sharing
climeguy: Nicholas Carr's book Shallows is an important book that talks about the future of AI along with the downside of the Internet.
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