A Principal's Reflections
APRIL 23, 2012
The Khan Academy site now contains over 3000 videos mapped to the Common Core and associated assessments that allow learners to practice and reinforce skills acquired through the videos. All one had to do was read the Twitter stream to deduce this. Detailed statistics are provided to learners and coaches (i.e. And they do.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 3, 2018
The digital divide between rich and poor students isn’t what it used to be. That context seems to be missing in our Twitter-verse right now. How can schools, teachers, and parents find the right “balance” for today’s digital natives? Technology is an extremely powerful modality, but in and of itself, it's not good or bad.
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Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.) And everyone clicks and rages and snipes all over again.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 20, 2016
” Despite all the Common Core-aligned revisions and all the headlines to the contrary, “ The New SAT Won’t Close the Achievement Gap.” These inequalities are apparent in the longstanding biases that are found in standardized testing, for example, often proxies for “ are you rich ?” “ Fake news.”
Hack Education
DECEMBER 2, 2016
The Common Core. ’” Facebook board member Marc Andreessen lashed out on Twitter, arguing that the decision meant that Indian telcos simply wanted to keep poor people off the Internet. .” What are the problems that Trump identified on the campaign trail about education? Political correctness. Foreign students.
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