Gates and Murdoch "Personalize" Learning with Larger Classes and Big Data Systems
Do you ever get the feeling that your mind has been boggled once too often? That was my reaction when I readthis enthusiastic report about the way the next generation's educational experience will be "personalized" by the tremendous data systems being developed by Bill Gates and Rupert Murdoch.
The Gates Foundation has worked with Rupert Murdoch's Amplify to create a new non-profit called inBloom. (formerly the Shared Learning Collaborative). Their mission is "inform and involve each student and teacher with data and tools designed to personalize learning." This story explains:
The Gates Foundation has worked with Rupert Murdoch's Amplify to create a new non-profit called inBloom. (formerly the Shared Learning Collaborative). Their mission is "inform and involve each student and teacher with data and tools designed to personalize learning." This story explains:
To personalize learning, the first part is diagnostics - where are [students] on the learning path? - and the second part is, once you know where they are on the learning path, what's the next step?," said Streichenberger. InBloom's services address both needs.
By creating a neutral, nonprofit group to help connect the data, the hope is that schools won't encounter as much friction when companies and organizations want to access student data for assessment programs or other ed tech tools.The service that inBloom will provide is to host all the data mined from all the assessments and surveys students
