((eBOOK) Getting Ahead of the Curve: Broadening Success in Education

Getting Ahead of the Curve: Broadening Success in Education

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Title: Getting Ahead of the Curve: Broadening Success in Education
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An information economy requires broad educational success. The manufacturing middle class is
slowly dwindling. Education must shift from selecting the best and brightest to truly educating
everyone to the best of their abilities. Leaving large segments of our population under educated
will repeat the social dislocations of the Great Depression.Grading on the curve only demonstrates
how many students a course or curriculum has failed to education. Most students need to actually
master the material, not by dumbing it down but by successfully teaching them.Digital education
technologies allow us to adapt education to the student rather than adapting the student to the
academic calendar. Learning differences are frequently not differences in ability to master material
but the time and effort required. Digital learning technology can provide this adaptation.To
successfully remediate gaps in a student's learning we need to know what they DON'T know
rather than just taking a sample of what they do know. Sampling knowledge as we do in traditional
testing merely provides a mechanism for sorting winners from losers. To sharply increase the
number of educational winners, we need to understand what they don't know and remediate
appropriately. Delivering education by lecture, video, text or image all have their advantages.
Video has the ability to demonstrate great material at little incremental cost. Text and images are
inexpensive and easily referenced in future learning. However, people respond to people. Human
engagement is essential when difficulties arise and motivation fades.Innovative new styles of
questions such as digital ink, drag and drop, highlighting of text and video can all help reveal the
kinds of misunderstandings students may have. These can all be automatically graded so that
such evaluations can be massively deployed throughout instruction to exercise knowledge and to
evaluate learning.Analytics on the learning process should not just dump charts and graphs on a
teacher but accurately pinpoint course difficulties where improvements will do the most good.We
need to abandon the rigid semester/term model of education for a more flexible schedule that
allows students to stop and learn before getting run over by new information. Learning needs to
repeat much more frequently that twice a year if we are to iteratively improve our course offerings.
Digital technology empowers iterative improvement.Cosmetic changes to traditional learning
structures will not generate radical improvements. We must be more flexible and more data-driven
in how we deliver and improve education.