Designing Learning Technology

Tue, 12 Nov 2002

Radio post #131
Revolution 2.0, a cross-platform development tool that is in many ways the successor to Hypercard, ships this month.

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Radio post #130
Another piece by the Times looking at a range of whole-school reform models. One interesting tidbit from this article: the programs that yield the best evidence for success on those that look most like direct instruction. Other programs suggest great promise but, because they offer educators more leeway in how the program is implemented, produce less reliable research data because there is greater variation. So more direct reform looks better in large-scale studies because it's more directly replicable; advocates of progressive reforms need to figure out how to bridge this methodology/implementation gap. (This was a major theme at "ICLS2002".)

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Radio post #129
The NY Times discusses No Child Left Behind and the current administrative push towards more "scientific" educational research. The takehome? Perhaps we will simply have to accept the fact that research will help us decide what is best but will never make those decisions for us.

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