Education 2.0 & 3.0

"Bill Gates said this week he believes it won't be long before artificial intelligence can be 'as good a tutor as any human ever could' for students ..."

Via Leona Ungerer

The big story here is "the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will step back from its traditional education reform agenda to instead invest close to $1.7 billion over the next five years on new initiatives that include a focus on building networks of schools." But as Stephen Krashen says in this short riposte, "The main problem in American education is not poor curricula, or lack of data. The problem is poverty." He's right. "While we can always improve, " he writes, "there is nothing seriously wrong with our schools and our teachers. Our overall scores are unspectacular because our rate of child poverty is so high, the highest among economically advanced countries." We know this. But poverty is exactly the problem the richest man in the world doesn't want to address.

Via Miloš Bajčetić