{"id":89143,"date":"2023-10-15T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=89143"},"modified":"2023-10-15T15:38:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T19:38:29","slug":"reflections-on-the-misunderstanding-about-education-that-cost-mark-zuckerberg-100-million-meyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/10\/15\/reflections-on-the-misunderstanding-about-education-that-cost-mark-zuckerberg-100-million-meyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on “The Misunderstanding About Education That Cost Mark Zuckerberg $100 Million” [Meyer]"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Misunderstanding About Education That Cost Mark Zuckerberg $100 Million<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0— from danmeyer.substack.com by Dan Meyer
\nPersonalized learning can feel isolating. Whole class learning can feel personal. This is hard to understand.<\/em><\/p>\n

Excerpt (emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Last week, Matt Barnum reported in Chalkbeat that the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is laying off dozens of staff members and\u00a0pivoting away from the personalized learning platform\u00a0they have funded since 2015 with somewhere near $100M.
\n…
\nI have tried to illustrate as often as my subscribers will tolerate that students don\u2019t particularly enjoy learning alone with laptops within social spaces like classrooms.\u00a0That learning fails to answer their questions about their social identity.\u00a0It contributes to their feelings of alienation and disbelonging.<\/strong><\/span> I find this case easy to make but hard to prove. Maybe we just haven\u2019t done personalized learning\u00a0right?<\/em>\u00a0Maybe Summit just needed to include\u00a0generative AI chatbots<\/em>\u00a0in their platform?<\/p>\n

What is far easier to prove, or rather to\u00a0disprove<\/em>, is the idea that \u201cwhole class instruction\u00a0must<\/em>\u00a0feel impersonal to students,\u201d that \u201cwhole class instruction\u00a0must necessarily<\/em>\u00a0fail to meet the needs of individual students.\u201d<\/p>\n

From DSC:<\/span><\/em>
\nI appreciate Dan’s comments here (as highlighted above)<\/em> as they are helpful in my thoughts regarding the Learning from the Living [Class] Room<\/a><\/strong> vision. They seem to be echoed here by Jeppe Klitgaard Stricker when he says:<\/span><\/p>\n

Personalized learning paths can be great, but they also entail a potential abolishment or unintended dissolution of learning communities and belonging.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps this powerful, global, Artificial Intelligence (AI)-backed, next-generation, lifelong learning platform of the future will be more focused on postsecondary<\/em> students and experiences — but not so much for the K12 learning ecosystem.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the school systems I’ve seen here in Michigan (USA) represent systems that address a majority of the class only. These one-size-fits-all systems don’t work for many students who need extra help and\/or who are gifted students. The trains move fast. Good luck if you can’t keep up with the pace.<\/span><\/p>\n

But if K-12’ers are involved in a future learning platform, the platform needs to address what Dan’s saying. It must address students questions about their social identity and not contribute to their feelings of alienation and disbelonging. It needs to support communities of practice and learning communities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Misunderstanding About Education That Cost Mark Zuckerberg $100 Million\u00a0— from danmeyer.substack.com by Dan Meyer Personalized learning can feel isolating. Whole class learning can feel personal. This is hard to understand. Excerpt (emphasis DSC): Last week, Matt Barnum reported in Chalkbeat that the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is laying off dozens of staff members and\u00a0pivoting away […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,498,72,286,533,816,46,7,838,510,69,309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaboration","category-communities-of-practice","category-daniel-s-christian","category-digital-learning","category-experimentation","category-facebook","category-k-12-related","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-personalizedcustomized-learning","category-platforms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89143"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89182,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89143\/revisions\/89182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}