a crisis of competence: SAVING THE HUMANITIES

[Prashant Kumar]

To add to that excellent summary, traditional (read: corporate) measures of
productivity in education are vast (and dangerous) oversimplifications.
What you're measuring is inherently nebulous (doesn't mean you can't, just
means that a single simply derived number will not tell you much).

Prashant

On 10 July 2012 09:27, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> nope. it aint like giving a tractor to a farmer. larry cuban wrote a
> good book on this. he may have changed his position recently, but he
> outlined the complexity of the teacher culture and why several
> technologies have failed to make a dent in education. s. jobs admitted
> the same. gates and bloomberg and the president and the rest are
> ignoring the reality; productivity is not merely a matter of widgets
> and hours worked; education is not a race to the top, is not a
> business or a factory.
>
> > Teaching lots more foax online than in classrooms WILL increase
> > productivity....
> >
> > not recommending, just sayin'....
>
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