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Re:Technology Billionaires Trying to Remake America's Schools by Consultant32452 on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @05:11PM (#14501386)
My daughter's school uses i-Ready. It does give differential lessons to each student based on how they've done on the tests. It even occasionally circles back in areas you were maybe just "ok" in. The problem I've seen (based only on her reports so not even remotely scientific) is that if you fail a section, it gives you the exact.same.lesson again. It doesn't try to show you the same material in a different way. It just cycles you back through the same exact thing. Additionally, she reports that "all" of her fellow classmates hate the time they spend doing i-ready. I suspect it's not very engaging, there's no group/social interaction, etc.
Re:Technology Billionaires Trying to Remake America's Schools by heymijo on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @05:31PM (#14501545)
Ugh, that kind of teaching, whether from tech or a teacher just kills me as I suspect it kills students' dispositions towards those subjects. I truly hope that your daughter has many other opportunities to engage in meaningful mathematics throughout her education.