perestroika

March 26, 2014

1990s, Computers, Epistemology, School Reform / By gary

“Many reformers have tried to jigger the school system, to improve it by making small changes in the hope that it would eventually be transformed into a new modern, well functioning system. But I think these reforms are victims of the same illusion that beset Gorbachev in the early days of Perestroika. Reforming School requires …

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January 31, 2011

1960s, 1970s, Computers, Epistemology, Learning, Logo, Mathematics, School Reform, Teaching, uncategorized / By gary

“The phrase, “technology and education” usually means inventing new gadgets to teach the same old stuff in a thinly disguised version of the same old way. Moreover, if the gadgets are computers, the same old teaching becomes incredibly more expensive and biased towards its dumbest parts, namely the kind of rote learning in which measurable …

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