Re:Khan Academy: It’s Different This Time
by patio11 on Sunday February 05, 2012 @03:04PM
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One can have a lot of respect for teachers and still like education reform.
That said, I've also worked with big companies. This does not obligate me to believe that big companies are universally properly managed collections of competent, self-effacing employees who would never dream of advancing their own interests at the stake of the job. It also does not obligate me to believe that big companies cannot be improved, even radically improved, by measures which would discomfit at least some people who work for big companies.
Indeed, if I hypothetically believed either of those two things prior to working for a big company, working for them would have cured me of those delusions, rapidly.
Re:Khan Academy: It’s Different This Time
by pjscott on Sunday February 05, 2012 @03:23PM
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Because this wasn't clear to me: are you arguing that his point is wrong, or that its amount of cynicism displeases you?
> you sell software to teachers (...) so that they can teach their children more efficiently
Does the whole "Bingo card" concept qualifies as efficient teaching? The word "gamification" seems to have been invented for it.
I mean I have no love for unions and I am well aware that they have no great love for the students but even so, isn't your point a bit to cynical?