למידה, אינטרנט ... ומה שביניהם

למדתי שבית ספר איננו עסק.

Few industries have been as seductive, or as frustrating, for technology investors as the business of education. For people who make their living by financing technological solutions to problems consumers and businesses often never knew they had, the glaring inefficiencies in education today represent a tempting target.

In many cases they (בתי הספר) don’t seem to show the sense of urgency that the corporate world does. That has something to do with why the level of investment goes up and down.

I don’t think that investment in education-related technologies is over, but I think there’s some hesitancy. Some people stuck in companies that have taken too long to get to scale are saying, ‘Geez! This education technology segment is tough.

נועד לשנות את חוויית הלימוד של התלמידים

למרות השינויים העצומים שחלים בעולם הטכנולוגיה, הרי שמערכת החינוך עדיין איטית מאוד בהסתגלות אליהם ודרכי ההוראה כיום לא שונים מהותית מלפני מספר עשורים. גם היום מרבית התלמידים נסחבים עם חוברות ומחברות, כשחוויית הלימוד אינה אינטראקטיבית.

פיצ'ר ייעודי נוסף למחשב הוא תמיכה ב-Intel Classroom Management. מדובר בתוכנת ניהול שמאפשרת למורה לשלוט בכל המחשבים שנמצאים בכיתה ותומכים בהתקן. בין השאר יכולים המורים לראות את המסכים של כל תלמיד בזמן אמת, לשתף מסמכים, לשלוח משימות ולבדוק אותן, לחסום שירותים או אתרים ועוד.

זה ללא ספק צעד משמעותי בהתאמת מערכת החינוך למאה ה-21

This is so rare. More often than not, our curricula rushes past lower, imprecise, informal, concrete rungs on the ladder of abstraction straight for the highest, most precise, most formal, most abstract ones. That’s a disservice to our learners and the process of learning.

You can always ask a student to move higher but it’s difficult to ask a student to move lower, forgetting what they’ve already seen. You can always ask for precisely plotted points of a model on a coordinate plane. But once you ask for them you can’t unask for them. You can’t then ask the question, “What might the model look like?” Because they’re looking at what the model looks like. So the Times asks you to sketch the relationship before showing you the precise graph.

We asked you to take the trouble to draw a line because we think doing so makes you think carefully about the relationship

The lesson builds your thinking into its instruction.

It is a common view that "if only someone could break this down and explain it clearly enough, more students would understand." Khan Academy is a great example of this approach with its clear, concise videos on science. However it is debatable whether they really work. Research has shown that these types of videos may be positively received by students. They feel like they are learning and become more confident in their answers, but tests reveal they haven't learned anything.

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