למידה, אינטרנט ... ומה שביניהם

Starting in the 2015-16 school year, California community college algebra teachers who are not already familiar with the program will be randomly assigned to either use the Khan resources or their regular practice.

For these reasons, it was methodologically unsound to conduct a rigorous evaluation of Khan Academy’s impact on learning during the study period, including any use of randomized control trials, which would have required Khan Academy tools and resources to remain unchanged during the study and for teachers and students to use Khan Academy the same way. (ע' 2)

He started by posting a math lesson, but his impact on education might truly be incalculable.

Here's what I don't think we will see. I think there will be no evidence that the use of Khan Academy in classes leads to greater opportunities for projects, challenging problems, peer-teaching, differentiated instruction, math talk, or deeper thinking.

The schools that want more rich project-based learning, they focus on -- wait for it -- rich project-based learning. They put their time, money, procurement, political will, and professional development resources towards the desired activity. Sticking kids in front of computer-generated worksheets helps kids do better on other computer-generated worksheets.

That’s all that remains from a failed experiment to assign every student a laptop at Hoboken Junior Senior High School. It began five years ago with an unexpected windfall of stimulus money from Washington, D.C., and good intentions to help the district’s students, the majority of whom are under or near the poverty line, keep up with their wealthier peers. But Hoboken faced problem after problem and is abandoning the laptops entirely this summer.

We had the money to buy them, but maybe not the best implementation.

Superintendent Toback admits that teachers weren’t given enough training on how to use the computers for instruction. Teachers complained that their teenage students were too distracted by their computer screens to pay attention to the lesson in the classroom.

Dump hardware in schools, hope for magic to happen

מרשים לגלות שמנהג כל כך ותיק כמו זריקת חומרה לתוך בתי הספר נמצאת בראש הרשימה של טרוקנו, ועצוב לחשוב שהיא כנראה תישאר בראש הרשימה עוד שנים רבות.