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be at the service of teaching, not the other way around.....</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501155744626_82912"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501155744626_82913"></div><a href="https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21725313-how-science-learning-can-get-best-out-edtech-together-technology-and-teachers-can?cid1=cust/ednew/n/bl/n/20170720n/owned/n/n/nwl/n/n/a/48910/n" class="enhancr2_0f3f65e2-37ae-0eec-020b-051e8cfa3e21" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501155744626_82953">Together, technology and teachers can revamp schools</a><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501155744626_82995"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501155744626_82993"><br></div><div id="enhancr2_0f3f65e2-37ae-0eec-020b-051e8cfa3e21" class="yahoo-link-enhancr-card ymail-preserve-class ymail-preserve-style" style="max-width:400px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-url="https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21725313-how-science-learning-can-get-best-out-edtech-together-technology-and-teachers-can?cid1=cust/ednew/n/bl/n/20170720n/owned/n/n/nwl/n/n/a/48910/n" data-type="yenhancr" data-category="article" data-embed-url="" data-size="medium" dir="ltr" contenteditable="false"> <a href="https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21725313-how-science-learning-can-get-best-out-edtech-together-technology-and-teachers-can?cid1=cust/ednew/n/bl/n/20170720n/owned/n/n/nwl/n/n/a/48910/n" style="text-decoration:none !important; 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line-height:19px; margin:0 0 4px 0;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;word-break:break-word;">Together, technology and teachers can revamp schools</h2> <div class="card-description" style="font-size:11px;line-height:15px;color:#999;word-break:break-word;">How the science of learning can get the best out of edtech</div> </td> <td style="text-align:right;padding:16px 12px 16px 0;"> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </a></div><div><br></div><br><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501155744626_82907"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501155744626_82843"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501155744626_82858">"...IN 1953 B.F. Skinner visited his daughter’s maths class. The Harvard
psychologist found every pupil learning the same topic in the same way
at the same speed. A few days later he built his first “teaching
machine”, which let children tackle questions at their own pace. By the
mid-1960s similar gizmos were being flogged by door-to-door salesmen.
Within a few years, though, enthusiasm for them had fizzled out.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501155744626_82859">Since
then education technology (edtech) has repeated the cycle of hype and
flop, even as computers have reshaped almost every other part of life.
One reason is the conservatism of teachers and their unions. But another
is that the brain-stretching potential of edtech has remained unproven.....Today, however, Skinner’s heirs are forcing the sceptics to think again (see <a href="http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21725285-reformers-are-using-new-software-personalise-learning-technology-transforming-what-happens" target="_blank" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501155744626_82896">article</a>).
Backed by billionaire techies such as Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates,
schools around the world are using new software to “personalise”
learning. This could help hundreds of millions of children stuck in
dismal classes—but only if edtech boosters can resist the temptation to
revive harmful ideas about how children learn. To succeed, edtech must
be at the service of teaching, not the other way around....."</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501155744626_83111"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501155744626_83123"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501155744626_83124">Read on!</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501155744626_83126"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501155744626_83138">Blessed day.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501155744626_83136"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501155744626_83133">Regards/Wangari<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501155744626_82852"><br></div></div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501155744626_82813">---<br><font style="font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501155744626_82818" size="2"><span style="color:rgb(127, 0, 63);" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501155744626_82833">Pray God Bless. 2013Wangari circa - </span><span style="color:rgb(127, 0, 63);" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501155744626_82817">"Being of the Light, We are Restored Through Faith in Mind, Body and Spirit; We Manifest The Kingdom of God on Earth".</span></font><br></div></div></body></html>