I gave my students iPads – then wished I could take them back

Re:I gave my students iPads – then wished I could take them ... by wagglycocks on Monday December 07, 2015 @02:04PM (#10691769)

What you're describing as the "but on a computer" era is also known in education as the first stage of the SAMR model: Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition.

This is a well known pitfall in technology integration. I don't think a lot of people in this thread are giving due credit to educators - it's their job, and there's a lot of smart people in education who have just as much common sense as the armchair teachers who think otherwise.

http://www.emergingedtech.com/2015/04/examples-of-transformi...

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Re:I gave my students iPads – then wished I could take them ... by jerf on Monday December 07, 2015 @02:41PM (#10692100)

Educators have their hands tied. We've centralized everything, and the central bureaucracy has decided it doesn't matter how innovative educators can be because the central bureaucracy already knows everything about the best way to teach, and if you deviate from it, you're fired. (A couple of intermediate steps through failing test scores and the consequences, but that's the effect.)

Until the educators get the central bureaucracy off their backs, it doesn't matter what they are capable of.

If you'd like to read my point as being that the central bureaucracy is "the most entrenched, hidebound, nearsighted, and even perhaps terrified of real change" part of the system, I'm perfectly comfortable with that.

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