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I hear a lot of complaints about edtech from the teacher I’m married to, and this is a common thread in how it fails: it tries to automate away the classroom ex
by sevensor 2y ago
I hear a lot of complaints about edtech from the teacher I’m married to, and this is a common thread in how it fails: it tries to automate away the classroom experience rather than empower the instructor. Most teachers, good ones anyway, don’t want to spend less time teaching, they want to spend less time fussing around with bullshit like marking late assignments complete in two different systems and responding to irate parent emails to reassure them that the assignment actually is marked complete where it matters, just not in the system they’re looking at. Not only do a lot of these systems try to automate the wrong thing — instruction — they totally fail where it counts by making more work for the teacher.
- mlyle 2y agoYes: I like your way of describing this. I think it's because of this: Bloom showed that students instructed 1 on 1 did about two sigma better than those learning in a classroom environment. There's a huge temptation here, to think that technology can claw some of those 2 standards back through individualization and differentiation. As a result, everyone wants to build systems that do instruction and try to directly improve outcomes. But kids won't work hard for a computer's approval.