Help Me Interview Clay Christensen

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  ennyman07/28/08 Report as spam
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  a Question

  The education establishment is so entrenched with spoken and unspoken agendas. Does Clay really believe he can change the system?
  
  As regards kids learning at different speeds and styles, there' no question personalized pacing would be beneficial. The Homeschool movement began in part as a solution to this problem for many families.
  
  Another role of public education is to get children to conform, to fit in, and be more easily controlled when they become "the masses." How do Clay's philosophies jive with that agenda?
  
  The politics of change are very dicey... Great ideas can be undone at the last minute by fear based responses from the establishment.
  
  Good luck.
  ed

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  Michael Fitzgerald07/28/08 Report as spam
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  thanks

  that should fit in well.
  
  michael

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  nicb5218407/31/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Help Me Interview Clay Christensen

  I think that by customizing education for each child we are allowing children to be lazy. Example: Mom 1 says, "My son just can't learn multiplication so I'm going to homeschool him and teach him geometry instead." I don't think that this child will ever have to strive to get better. Education is a struggle and should be a struggle. If it is easy, someone is not doing their job. Kids should absolutely be forced to learn the basics no matter what difficulties they face. I hope this isn't to conservative but I think that this issue has to be addressed quick before we have people in the work force that know a lot about a little and nothing about a lot.

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  Michael Fitzgerald08/02/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Help Me Interview Clay Christensen

  i don't know that education should be a struggle. I like my kids to be challenged, but I also want them to like to learn things. Christensen isn't saying things should be easy. Nor is he saying kids should not learn the basics. He's following the research, which shows that people learn things differently, and in fact the same person might have different learning styles for different kinds of information.
  
  I'll be posting more on his book and my conversation with him.
  
  Michael