Connecticut Superintendents Association says children should get more instruction from computers
No, it’s not a headline from the satirical Internet website known as “The Onion.”
It is an approach to public education that is being pushed by the Corporate Education Reform Industry and those that believe that one of the best ways to improve “educational achievement” is to have the nation’s public school children spend less time learning with teachers and more time receiving “personalized instruction” from computer programs.
Among the benefits, they claim, is that school districts could reduce the high cost of teachers.
Their proposal will also provide computer companies, software companies, testing companies and the educational consulting companies with an even greater share of the taxpayer funds being spent on public education.
Perhaps they call it a “win-win” scenario.
Rather than recognize that real teachers, with the appropriate support, have always been and will always be the best equipped to help and support each and every child in their classroom, the proponents of “personalized learning” claim that computers can complete the task of personalizing “learning” more efficiently and effectively than a teacher ever can.
Not satisfied with turning public schools into little more than Common Core testing factories, those who would profit from the so-called “personalized learning” approach, and Connecticut Superintendents Association says children should get more instruction from computers - Wait What?: