When they talk about “customized” and “personalized” instruction, do they mean sitting in front of a computer that provides questions at the level of the student? Is this cost savings by removing teachers? Tune in, join the conversation and ask questions.
The Alliance for Excellent Education
Invites You to a Webinar on the
Invites You to a Webinar on the
Working Draft of Suggested Legislation for Personalized and Digital Learning and the Opening of a Public Comment Period
Monday, July 30, 2012
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., ET
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., ET
Participants
Jessica Cardichon, Director of Federal Advocacy, Alliance for Excellent Education
Chip Slaven, Senior Advocacy Associate, Alliance for Excellent Education
Bob Wise, President, Alliance for Excellent Education
Jessica Cardichon, Director of Federal Advocacy, Alliance for Excellent Education
Chip Slaven, Senior Advocacy Associate, Alliance for Excellent Education
Bob Wise, President, Alliance for Excellent Education
Please join the Alliance for Excellent Education on Monday, July 30 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., ET for a live webinar to discuss and seek feedback on a working draft of suggested legislation for personalized and digital learning that is currently being developed by the Alliance.
Over the past several years, the Alliance has been developing digital learning policy that supports the effective use of technology as a way to drive higher student achievement. More states are taking policy actions to implement innovative types of student-centered learning and seeking guidance in the legislative drafting process. This working draft of suggested legislation is meant to assist states as they plan strategically for the future, develop workable timelines for implementation, and create important quality safeguards and transparency guidelines. The webinar also represents the opening of a public comment period, during which the Alliance will seek feedback and comments from policymakers and the public.
This webinar will highlight the recommended legislative actions and language that have been developed so far in the working draft. Following the discussion, there will be an interactive conversation among the panelists using questions submitted by participants from the around the country.
An executive summary of the legislation is available at http://media.all4ed.org/sites/default/files/EachChildLearns_executivesummary.pdf .
Register and submit questions for the webinar at http://media.all4ed.org/registration-jul-30-2012.
Please direct questions concerning the webinar to alliance@all4ed.org.
NOTE: If you are unable to watch the webinar live, an archived version will be available at http://www.all4ed.org/webinars usually one or two days after the event airs.
The Alliance for Excellent Education is a Washington, DC-based national policy and advocacy organization that works to improve national and federal policy so that all students can achieve at high academic levels and graduate from high school ready for success in college, work, and citizenship in the twenty-first century. For more information about the Alliance, visit http://www.all4ed.org.
I was just informed that Dr. Wise is the new Chair of NBPTS. Randi Weingarten and Dennis Van Roekel are also on the NBPTS board and I have written them with my concerns (before evening participating the the webinar). I understand that AFT endorsed this proposal. Somehow I think this could end up being our latest crucial issue e face in education and a primary strategy to promote the de-professionalism of teaching.
This brings to mind Gertrude Stein’s famous statement: “The trouble with Oakland is that when you get there, there isn’t any there there.”
I don’t get the sense sense that the authors of the proposed legislation know or care what education should contain. The executive summary reads like a landfill.
I hope that someone has noticed the conflict of interest between the involvement of Jeb BUSH with this PAC. The only non-political Bush brother owns companies that lead (supposedly) in the development of this method of curriculum deliver.
To comment briefly on the two above, it is not a NEW strategy but the reason behind the techies getting involved (Gates, Wozniak for a while but he actually entered a classroom and got out of the politics). Yes, the idea is you can deliver great content via recorded white board/powerpoint lessons (states/cities pay companies like Pearson through no-bid contracts like in NYC). Then students progress at their own speed through content without even needing to be in a building. This then supports increased class size, building capacities over 100%, and all the other changes that have been going on in NYC and perhaps other major cities as well. And you don’t need real teachers in the classroom, but paraprofessionals and other low skilled workers to encourage and facilitate. They don’t need to know anything about subject matter. They just need to know how to work technology, not develop it.
Diana, all executive summaries of legislation read like that (and I have actually read quite a few mainly dealing with science/environmental issues). The true disappointment is that most politicians only read the executive summaries before voting. They don’t even have a competent staff member read them. Most laws enacted in this country today are written by in total or major parts by the PACS.