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“What do I mean when I talk about transformational productivity reforms that can also boost student outcomes? Our K–12 system largely still adheres to the century-old, industrial-age factory model of education. A century ago, maybe it made sense to adopt seat-time requirements for graduation and pay teachers based on their...

Education Politics Democrats have proposed a number of measures that would expand the Pell Grant program (including the return of Pell Grant money for summer school). “The U.S. Department of Education has set aside more than $4 million to develop the Obama administration's college ratings system,” says Inside Higher Ed....

This post first appeared on aud.life Finally, unless we capture control of the accelerative thrust—and there are few signs yet that we will—tomorrow's individual will have to cope with even more hectic change than we do today. For education the lesson is clear: its prime objective must be to increase...

This post first appeared in January 2015 on Educating Modern Learners Another week, another story of parents under investigation for letting their kids play outside without supervision. Ten year-old Rafi and six-year-old Dvora Meitiv had been allowed by their parents to walk around their Silver Springs, Maryland neighborhood. But recently,...

The military has long been involved in the development of education technology – hardly surprising considering the number of people it must train. From a 1988 report from the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment: The military services continue to support important work on basic research on cognition, artificial intelligence, speech...

This post first appeared on aud.life Алгоритмизация в обучении It must be said that the cybernetic approach to instruction and the interest in programmed instruction did not arise by chance in the Soviet Union. It was prepared for by the logic of developing several strictly psychological and pedagogical ideas and...

Education Politics The NCLB rewrite has made it out of committee on a unanimous vote. Whee. From the Chicago Tribune: “Federal authorities are investigating Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett and a $20.5 million contract the district awarded on a no-bid basis to a training academy that formerly employed her.”...

This post first appeared on aud.life Little by little the subversive features of the computer were eroded away: Instead of cutting across and so challenging the very idea of subject boundaries, the computer now defined a new subject; instead of changing the emphasis from impersonal curriculum to excited live exploration...

This post first appeared on aud.life Just as students of classical rhetoric were once instructed to emulate the specific features of famous speeches, sometimes by reproducing parts of the text piece by piece, Lynda.com students are expected to learn by duplicating, as they painstakingly reproduce a facsimile of the evolving...

I'm surprised to have seen so little thoughtful analysis of the LinkedIn acquisition of Lynda.com, particularly as Michael Feldstein put it: the deal suggests that LinkedIn might just be "the most interesting company in ed tech." Maybe I shouldn't be. There was a rash of “hot takes” from tech industry...