Personalization, Backpacks Full of Cash, and Rock Star Teachers: The Intersection of U.S. Education Policy, Technology and Media Hype
1. Personalization, Backpacks full of
Cash, and Rock Star Teachers:
The Intersection of U.S. Education
Policy, Technology, and Media
Hype
Justin Reich
Co-Founder, EdTechTeacher
Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society
2. "I do not believe in the institutional
structure of public schooling anymore,"
Richard Elmore said, noting that his long-
standing work at helping teachers and
principals professionalize their practice is
"palliative care for a dying institution."
Elmore predicted "a progressive
dissociation between learning and
schooling.“
Elmore on C-Span
3.
4. Edward Thorndike John Dewey
Education as Science of Education as Life
Delivery
5. “One cannot understand the history of
education in the United States during the 20 th
century unless one realises that Edward L.
Thorndike won and John Dewey lost.”
-Ellen Lagemann
12. BTW, math videos don’t
have to be lecture
• Meyer on Problem Finding
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=BlvKWEvKSi8#t=06m45s
• Popcorn Picker
– https://vimeo.com/42501010
16. Personalization as:
• An individualized, optimized pathway
through a standardized curriculum
• A rejection of standardized curriculum and
an exploration of personal pathways
• A modification of standardized curriculum
“skinned” with personalized content.
• The experience of students making
personal meaning of a shared curriculum
19. • Will market competition force schools to improve
in value and cost?
• Will all voters have equitable access to school
information?
• Will middle class voters support “weighted-
backpacks” for students from poor families?
• Will communities thrive without central
institutions?
• Can a school serve its civic mission without a
consistent school body?
21. Rockstar Teachers
Unbundling the Teaching
Profession
http://youtu.be/PNUQInUkfoU
22. Unbundling the Teaching
Professions
Developing Curriculum
Direct Instruction
Answering Questions
Pastoral Care
Tutoring Students
Designing Lessons
Observing Other Teachers
Assessing Student
Understanding
Providing Physical Security of
Translating Assessments
Children and School Property
to Actionable Follow-up