Found this typed to my ceiling in the classroom today. Inside joke is that I use purple for marking up papers. Wish I knew who did it, I’d give bonus points.
I use to be on the team that's like, "Let kids bring phones into the classroom! We'll use them for learning!"
The problem, and the reason I've changed my stance, is simply that the attention economy makes this nearly impossible.
It's a losing battle for kids & their brain.
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To clarify, I (and presumably Poplin) aren't arguing for the abolition of all structure - or goals, for that matter. But too great a focus on outcomes, with curriculum designed backwards from predetermined ends, isn’t education at all, as Maurice Holt observed; it’s just training
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