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December 18, 2011 08:00 pm GMT
Computer technology has penetrated the classroom for thirty years with little impact. After hundreds of disruptive education startups, the best innovation in education is still the chalkboard. This isnt the fault of the entrepreneurs, but the fault of an education system which resists innovation at every turn.Many K-12 education technology startups target teachers and administrators by offering tools to become more productive: Lesson plan sharing, gradebooks, training tools, whiteboards and more. Devin Coldewey called them practical in his TechCrunch post If I Were A Poor Black Kid Inadvertently Touches On Sad Education And Tech Truths. Coldewey concludes that education needs top-down reforms that utilize these practical technologies. He sincerely believes these technologies can improve teacher and administrator efficiency so the overworked staff can gain control of their oversized classes in the pitifully insufficient resourced schools.Unfortunately, the top down practical approach won't work for some very good reasons. Essentially, the education establishment doesn't want to be disrupted and they will leverage the $597 billion spent annually on K-12 public education to prevent true disruption.
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Technology Cannot Disrupt Education From The Top Down
Computer technology has penetrated the classroom for thirty years with little impact. After hundreds of disruptive education startups, the best innovation in education is still the chalkboard. This isnt the fault of the entrepreneurs, but the fault of an education system which resists innovation at every turn.Many K-12 education technology startups target teachers and administrators by offering tools to become more productive: Lesson plan sharing, gradebooks, training tools, whiteboards and more. Devin Coldewey called them practical in his TechCrunch post If I Were A Poor Black Kid Inadvertently Touches On Sad Education And Tech Truths. Coldewey concludes that education needs top-down reforms that utilize these practical technologies. He sincerely believes these technologies can improve teacher and administrator efficiency so the overworked staff can gain control of their oversized classes in the pitifully insufficient resourced schools.Unfortunately, the top down practical approach won't work for some very good reasons. Essentially, the education establishment doesn't want to be disrupted and they will leverage the $597 billion spent annually on K-12 public education to prevent true disruption.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/uOElmYY3ISk/
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