tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post8598161700149828668..comments2024-03-28T19:47:39.985-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: WI: Trying To Hide Charter TruthPeter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-6686869270242673232016-02-20T18:04:48.716-05:002016-02-20T18:04:48.716-05:00I make a large amount of use of the new communicat...I make a large amount of use of the new communication technologies. Multiple short videos, screen shots, computer graded homework, economic experiments, even some digital humanities types of things like word clouds. It is for the most part just a dynamic extension of reading (reading is, after all, a way to access a learning technology as well).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-55603205823651448242016-02-20T16:49:54.237-05:002016-02-20T16:49:54.237-05:00I found this article touting the benefits of blend...I found this article touting the benefits of blended learning: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865569876/Blended-learning-teachers-plus-computers-equal-success.html?pg=all<br /><br />Teachers + Computers = Success<br /><br />Hmm... It is probably not quite that simple. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07228908566250306699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-89482246581412096402016-02-19T15:24:41.486-05:002016-02-19T15:24:41.486-05:00The fastest growing charter sector is the store fr...The fastest growing charter sector is the store front blended learning charters. We have never had a conversation about educating students in isolation. Besides being lucrative, is it a good idea?Thomas Ulticanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14347503503072251716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-49333669295499275692016-02-19T11:37:27.671-05:002016-02-19T11:37:27.671-05:00"The inefficient, multiple provider model of ..."The inefficient, multiple provider model of charter schools creates greater expense...."<br /><br />And of course the business-y, rephormy types know this - that's why mergers and acquisitions are so hot. In the business world it's great fun to acquire new companies and fire all their billing, accounting, HR and other office type people (and then sell off the assets and run the rest of the company into the ground, but that's a different rant). It just shows how disingenuous our rephormy friends like teaching economist are when they pretend that charter schools don't take any more from public schools than parent-paid private schools do.Diennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04570040547158789834noreply@blogger.com