http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/opinion/sunday/teaching-is-not-a-business.html?action=click&contentCollection=Business%20Day&module=MostEmailed&version=Full®ion=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article&_r=0
Much like the Kumashiro article, this op-ed piece touches on the devolution of education towards a market-like structure. The author (a professor from Berkeley) argues against the dehumanized mechanisms found in business models and in shiny, new technology as viable ways to promote 'better education.' Instead, effective teaching and learning is "an intimate act" between and among people, people with passions and personhoods that no impersonal paradigm and cold equipment can replicate or replace. I know we are all very busy, but I wanted to share this with you! It could make for a nice study break :)
Much like the Kumashiro article, this op-ed piece touches on the devolution of education towards a market-like structure. The author (a professor from Berkeley) argues against the dehumanized mechanisms found in business models and in shiny, new technology as viable ways to promote 'better education.' Instead, effective teaching and learning is "an intimate act" between and among people, people with passions and personhoods that no impersonal paradigm and cold equipment can replicate or replace. I know we are all very busy, but I wanted to share this with you! It could make for a nice study break :)
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