This is the MUST-READ of the day! Please don’t just read the intro. Follow the link and read it. Let it sink in and marinate on it. This IS Ed Reform 2.0 and 1.0 was intentionally designed to get us to this point.
Today I share a guest post from an elementary school teacher in Maine, a state in the vanguard of Ed Reform 2.0 implementation. Unless changes are made, this year’s freshmen are expected to graduate under the state’s new proficiency-based diploma requirements. In recent months, push-back against this new educational paradigm has grown substantially. Parents, teachers and students are finding standards-based education, a model that emphasizes technology-based education delivery, highly problematic. Here is one teacher’s perspective:
“I love technology. I love it so much that I got my Masters in educational technology through Boise State University in Idaho. Through this program I learned to teach online, gamify my curriculum, personalize learning, use countless technology tools, and promote digital literacy in the classroom.
When I switched to a school district that had one to one technology for my students, I was over the moon! That was until I actually saw it implemented…
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