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Superintendents: Are you “leading your teacher’s learning” or “training” them?

By on April 23, 2013 in Capital Value Case, Challenge of Change, First-Person Learning, Learning, Maladaptive Schema, Mind-Shame, Mission of Education

Buying the ‘right’ program and training teachers to use it is not only insufficient, it misorients a school system’s learning.

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State of the Union: The Case Behind Obama’s Call for National Pre-K

By on February 13, 2013 in Capital Value Case, Challenge of Change, Healthy Learning, I AM LEARNED, Mission of Education

The science and economics behind #POTUS #SOTU call for National #PREK – @ezraklein analysis and #COTC resources

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Update: Children of the Code: CHANGING TRAJECTORIES – the Final Chapter

By on January 15, 2013 in Challenge of Change, Children of the Code, Healthy Learning

“CHANGING TRAJECTORIES” is the final chapter of Phase I of COTC and includes our suggestions and tips for improving the learning trajectories of struggling readers.

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Our government is what our population has learned it to be.

By on November 5, 2012 in Capital Value Case, Challenge of Change, Healthy Learning, Mission of Education

Our national political conversation is devoid of even mentioning the central issue that, within two decades, will most determine our nation’s fate: our most distinctive competency – our only long term competitive advantage – our collective intelligence.

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Obama vs. Romney, The Great Debate: The Mission of Education in 21st Century America

By on September 20, 2012 in Capital Value Case, Challenge of Change, Mission of Education

How a president envisions the role of education in shaping the future of America is a telling indicator of his or her core beliefs, philosophies, economic theories, values, morals, and ethics.

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“Our problems are man-made” but “we” didn’t create them and “we” can’t solve them…

By on June 17, 2012 in Challenge of Change, Comments on other sites, Learning

This is in response to David Roberts’ article: “Getting used to being in charge of the planet”   David Roberts (DR):  “the decisions made by people alive today will determine the fate of life on Earth for centuries to come” Yes. And, it’s always been true that what each generation profoundly affects the generations that follow.  The [...]

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Re: Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter?

By on May 2, 2012 in Capital Value Case, Challenge of Change, Comments on other sites

A company has developed software that can compete with human authors in writing news stories. Education Week (4-12-12) put out a similar story about a computer competing with college professors at scoring essays. Extreme Tech carried a story (Will an IBM computer be your next mayor?) about the use of IBM’s Watson to manage the operations of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Clearly the machines will extend into replacing humans everywhere it is cost-advantageous and socially acceptable to do so. In light of these changes, WHAT IS THE MISSION OF EDUCATION?

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Re: Man vs. Computer: Who Wins the Essay-Scoring Challenge?

By on April 14, 2012 in Artificial Learning, Capital Value Case, Challenge of Change, Technology for Learning

Re: Man vs. Computer: Who Wins the Essay-Scoring Challenge? From Education Week: Curriculum Matters 4-13-2012 “The results demonstrated that overall, automated essay scoring was capable of producing scores similar to human scores for extended-response writing items with equal performance for both source-based and traditional writing genre,” says the study. This is fascinating. Artificial intelligence has already [...]

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Re: Getting Our Kids Ready for the Competition

By on April 8, 2012 in Challenge of Change, Children of the Code, Comments on other sites, Uncategorized

Re: Getting Our Kids Ready for the Competition – the Great Conversations and the 32,000,000 Missing Words! by Dick Jacobs Your piece creates a great framework for conversation but one point needs clarification: “Cognitive science tells us that if learning our reading fundamentals doesn’t start very early and the skills aren’t in place by age nine or ten, [...]

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WAKE UP! THE ROBOTS ARE CALLING

By on April 4, 2012 in Capital Value Case, Challenge of Change, Healthy Learning

The other night I received a call from the cable company. The voice explained that it was calling about an appointment I had scheduled and asked whether I wanted to keep the appointment, cancel, or reschedule it. After saying I wanted to keep it, the voice asked me if I or someone over 18 would [...]

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