Influencing policy (training slides from Fast Track Impact)
Personalized Learning, Backpacks of Cash, and Rockstar Teachers: The Intersection of Technology, Free-Market Ideology, and Media Hype
1. Personalization, Backpacks Full of Cash,
and Rock Star Teachers:
The Intersection of U.S. Education Policy,
Technology, and Media Hype
Justin Reich
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@bjfr
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15. Blended
Learning
aformal education program in which
astudent learnsat least in part
through onlinedelivery of content
and instruction with some element
of student control overtime,
place, path, and/orpace and at
least in part at asupervised brick-
and-mortar location away from
home.
(Innosight Institute)
socially embedded, interest-driven, and
oriented toward educational, economic,
or political opportunity. Connected
learning isrealized when ayoung
person isableto pursue a personal
interest orpassion with thesupport
of friendsand caring adults, and isin
turn ableto link thislearning and
interest to academic achievement,
career successor civic engagement
(MacArthur Connected Learning)
Connected
Learning
17. Blended
Learning
aformal education program in which
astudent learnsat least in part
through onlinedelivery of content
and instruction with some element
of student control overtime,
place, path, and/orpace and at
least in part at asupervised brick-
and-mortar location away from
home.
socially embedded, interest-driven, and
oriented toward educational, economic,
or political opportunity. Connected
learning isrealized when ayoung
person isableto pursue a personal
interest orpassion with thesupport
of friendsand caring adults, and isin
turn ableto link thislearning and
interest to academic achievement,
career successor civic engagement
Connected
Learning
18. Blended
Learning
aformal education program in which
astudent learnsat least in part
through onlinedelivery of content
and instruction with some element
of student control overtime,
place, path, and/orpace and at
least in part at asupervised brick-
and-mortar location away from
home.
23. Unbundling the Teaching Professions
Direct Instruction
Pastoral Care
Designing Lessons
Assessing Student
Understanding
Translating Assessments
to Actionable Follow-up
Developing Curriculum
Answering Questions
Tutoring Students
Observing Other Teachers
Providing Physical Security of
Children and School Property
26. Blended
Learning
aformal education program in which
astudent learnsat least in part
through onlinedelivery of content
and instruction with some element
of student control overtime,
place, path, and/orpace and at
least in part at asupervised brick-
and-mortar location away from
home.
socially embedded, interest-driven, and
oriented toward educational, economic,
or political opportunity. Connected
learning isrealized when ayoung
person isableto pursue a personal
interest orpassion with thesupport
of friendsand caring adults, and isin
turn ableto link thislearning and
interest to academic achievement,
career successor civic engagement
Connected
Learning
31. “One cannot understand the history of
education in the United States during the 20th
century unless one realises that Edward L.
Thorndike won and John Dewey lost.”
-Ellen Lagemann
36. IVAN ILLYCH: DESCHOOLING SOCIETY
"Opportunities for skill-
learning can be vastly
multiplied if we open the
"market." This depends on
matching the right teacher
with the right student when
he is highly motivated in an
intelligent program, without
the constraint of
curriculum"
37. 1. that oneof thecentral problemsof schoolsisthat the
batch processing of studentslimitsdevelopment of
intellect, maybedestroyshumanity
2. that theproper unit of analysisof education isnot the
classor group but theindividual
3. that technology enablestheoptimal allocation of
learnersto learning resources
4. that theproper mechanism for funding thiskind of
learning isredistributing education-earmarked tax
dollarsfrom school boardsto individual students.