Social discussion of CS in K-12

[Charles Schultz <sacrophyte AT gmail.com>]

re: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/opinion/the-building-blocks-of-learning.html

I believe this echoes much of what we have been talking about in regards to student-centered approaches in education. After all, Tony Wagner retweeted it. *grin* Essentially, the government has been placing a high focus on catching up with China (and this thing called "global marketplace"), but we lose sight of the whole child.

My take: we already have teachers/admin in Unit 4 who, by their actions, embrace the whole child and student-centeredness; I am still pushing to make sure the BOE hires a superintendent in 2017 that makes this a top priority.

One funny comment from Nicole's NG article last night:

http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2016-06-13/next-step-champaign-schools-phone-survey.html#comment-587314

From the Economist June 11th, special education issue.

Ranking of Effect vs Cost on education

9 Feedback from students

8 meta-cognitive strategies

6 Peer tutoring

5 Collaborative group learning

3 Reducing class size

1 Mentoring pupils

0 Improving school buildings

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Charles Schultz