Saturday, April 04, 2015
Paper wins.
Now this is interesting!
With the new solution, teachers and professors can assign print materials tagged by HP Link technology. Once a student completes his or her work, the student or teacher scans it with a smartphone app, developed based on HP mobile scanning technology. From there, Knewton considers the student’s past work, analyzes the new information, and determines useful strategies from the anonymized data of similar students to recommend content that the student should work on next. Knewton assembles a new individualized content packet or textbook chapter in real time for that student.This is what great teachers have always done when there was time available. In public schools there's never time. Most important part is the printed result. Learning from screens is incomplete. Students need to get their hands on something physical, and need to leave permanent marks on a physical part of the world. Paper isn't the best way to accomplish those ends, but paper is the cheapest. This particular commercial technique depends way too much on one central server, and the comparison with "anonymized data" is dubious, but the broad idea is splendid and will probably spawn less centralized implementations.
Labels: Experiential education
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