by andflywrite | Jan 4, 2022 | BEST LINKS EVER
A big idea driving Khan Academy is a belief in “mastery learning”—that students should show proficiency in one set of materials before moving on to the next. The nonprofit’s latest push to make mastery learning mainstream involves partnering with school districts who...
by andflywrite | Jan 3, 2022 | BEST LINKS EVER
The school district plans to install 450 units, which cost $500 each. Funding to pay monthly internet subscription fees will eventually run out. Is this affordable quality broadband access? $1.2 million plus subscription fees. OTOH, what are the costs to all of us of...
by andflywrite | Dec 21, 2021 | BEST LINKS EVER
Here’s a grab bag of resources to understand trends as we come up on a new year. A majority of these involve groking networks, of various sorts. Predicting the future is hard, but that isn’t stopping this group. We might note that what works in one...
by andflywrite | Dec 16, 2021 | BEST LINKS EVER
Matthew Botvinick, a professor at Princeton who is now the head of neuroscience at DeepMind, Alphabet’s A.I. subsidiary, said that distilling relevant similarities and differences into vectors was “the secret sauce underlying all of these A.I. advances.” What if...
by andflywrite | Dec 16, 2021 | BEST LINKS EVER
In this IDRA podcast episode, educators discuss how schools can use the Promotoras model for outreach to families. They share examples from PTA Comunitarios in South Texas who have used the promotora model to build family leadership in education to great effect. (IDRA...
