Superintendents: Are you “leading your teacher’s learning” or “training” them?
Buying the ‘right’ program and training teachers to use it is not only insufficient, it misorients a school system’s learning.
Capital Value Case
State of the Union: The Case Behind Obama’s Call for National Pre-K
The science and economics behind #POTUS #SOTU call for National #PREK – @ezraklein analysis and #COTC resources
Our government is what our population has learned it to be.
Our national political conversation is devoid of even mentioning the central issue that, within two decades, will most determine our nation’s fate: our most distinctive competency – our only long term competitive advantage – our collective intelligence.
Re: Microsoft’s ‘National Talent Strategy’ & “Race to the Future’ = Greater Investment in STEM.
I am all for STEM but I think we’d have a greater net number of STEMers if we focused our main efforts on getting more kids READY to learn their way into STEM.
Obama vs. Romney, The Great Debate: The Mission of Education in 21st Century America
How a president envisions the role of education in shaping the future of America is a telling indicator of his or her core beliefs, philosophies, economic theories, values, morals, and ethics.
Is Inequality A Matter of Choice?
The attribution of choice lies at the heart of virtually all forms of social inequality and what might also be called “self-inequality”. How we hold ourselves responsible for our choices forms much of the basis for how proud or ashamed of ourselves we are. How we hold others responsible for their choices forms much of the basis of our judgements about them. After all, if we believe that ‘success’ is the product of individual choice then so to is ‘failure’.
Re: Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter?
A company has developed software that can compete with human authors in writing news stories. Education Week (4-12-12) put out a similar story about a computer competing with college professors at scoring essays. Extreme Tech carried a story (Will an IBM computer be your next mayor?) about the use of IBM’s Watson to manage the operations of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Clearly the machines will extend into replacing humans everywhere it is cost-advantageous and socially acceptable to do so. In light of these changes, WHAT IS THE MISSION OF EDUCATION?
Re: Man vs. Computer: Who Wins the Essay-Scoring Challenge?
Re: Man vs. Computer: Who Wins the Essay-Scoring Challenge? From Education Week: Curriculum Matters 4-13-2012 “The results demonstrated that overall, automated essay scoring was capable of producing scores similar to human scores for extended-response writing items with equal performance for both source-based and traditional writing genre,” says the study. This is fascinating. Artificial intelligence has already … Read more
Shame: Self-Deceiving, Self-Misperceiving, and Learning Disabling
From Science 2.0: Of 3,500 college applicants, more than a third couldn’t report their weight accurately. The heavier they were, the less accurate their estimates. “This misperception is important because the first step in dealing with a weight problem is knowing that you have one,” said Margarita Teran-Garcia, a University of Illinois professor of food science … Read more
WAKE UP! THE ROBOTS ARE CALLING
The other night I received a call from the cable company. The voice explained that it was calling about an appointment I had scheduled and asked whether I wanted to keep the appointment, cancel, or reschedule it. After saying I wanted to keep it, the voice asked me if I or someone over 18 would … Read more