Tomorrow’s Schools vs. Today’s Politics
by Collin Hitt Reason Magazine has a great feature on online learning by Katherine Mangu Ward. As is typical with her journalism, it provides clarity to a complex issue. She sums up the unease with technology felt by teachers and bureaucrats, which has real consequences for today’s students: Adults who weren’t weaned on broadband find...
by Collin Hitt
Reason Magazine has a great feature on online learning by Katherine Mangu Ward. As is typical with her journalism, it provides clarity to a complex issue. She sums up the unease with technology felt by teachers and bureaucrats, which has real consequences for today’s students:
Adults who weren’t weaned on broadband find the beeps and boops of their computers distracting, but distractions from the computers aren’t a problem for kids. Slow brain death from data deficit while they sit still, eyes forward, listening to a one-dimensional lecture that’s going too slowly, too quickly, or in the wrong direction altogether is a much more serious threat.
Pitted against bold developments in online learning, very often, are the teachers union. Indeed it wasn’t that long ago that the Chicago Teachers Union backed a failed measure that would have banned the public funding of online learning.