#disrupting class

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I want one!

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School System Structures and Frameworks

"Public school systems are often structured as functional teams, with each subject on its own vertical in the system. This framework has been highly successful in terms of creating autonomous departments that are open to accepting small changes each semester."

Click through above, to read my full analysis of Chapter 9 in Clayton Christensen's book, Disrupting Class. I also reference Quest to Learn, Marc Prensky, and James Paul Gee as some of the most influential games-based learning experimenters and researchers.

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Descriptive Versus Prescriptive Research

"Christensen believes there is a problem in education research. First, and most important of all, is that the research being done on education is stuck in the descriptive stage. This stage is a preliminary stage in which ideas are developed and questions are asked. Most researchers compare their ideas to other papers, and play a game of popularity within the research field. This is not the response the academic world needs in order to move forward, in order to create disruptions."

Click through above, to read my full analysis of Chapter 8 in Clayton Christensen's book, Disrupting Class.

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Leading Students to Success

"The key events embedded within our curricula that could help students feel successful - examinations - occur every few weeks. Feedback on whether students actually succeed is often delayed by another one to two weeks while the teacher does the grading. And when the grades are handed out, the privilege of feeling successful is reserved only for the best students. By design, the rest experience failure."(p.169-170)"

Click through above, to read my full analysis of Chapter 7 in Clayton Christensen's book, Disrupting Class. I also recommend some further reading by Anya Kamenetz, as well as her TedTalk on the DIY U movement.

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A Quick, Look Back to the Beginning

"Language Dancing... and the hypothesis that children who grow up with business talk, will be stunted compared to those who grow up with extra talk, and there is nothing the school systems can do to fix the lapse in education."

Click through above, to read my full analysis of Chapter 6 in Clayton Christensen's book, Disrupting Class.

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"Why hasn't someone persuaded the triple-A video game companies in our nation to create e-learning products on the side?"

Click through above, to read my full analysis of Chapter 5 in Clayton Christensen's book, Disrupting Class.

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"The diversity we are seeing in K-12 offerings, really is the first step towards transitioning from a monolithic teacher-led class to a student-centric learning environment."

Click through above, to read my full analysis of Chapter 4 in Clayton Christensen's book, Disrupting Class.

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To Succeed, Where the Alternative is Nothing

"Success with disruptive innovations always originates at the simplest end of the market, typically competing against nonconsumption." (p.85)

Click through above to read my full analysis of Chapter 3, in Clayton Christensen's book, Disrupting Class.