“Hybrid” schools that combine face-to-face teaching by teachers with online instruction are the next big thing, reports Education Next. The Rocketship schools in San Jose, School of One in New York City, Denver School of Science and Technology, Carpe Diem in Yuma and San Diego’s High Tech High “use technology intensively and thoughtfully to tailor instruction to individual students’ needs, and provide robust, frequent data on their performance,” write Jonathan Schorr and Deborah McGriff, NewSchools Venture Fund partners.
In the lab, the 1st graders log in by selecting from a group of images that acts as a personal password, and then race through a short assessment that covers math and reading problems. Faced with the prompt “Put all the striped balls in one basket and all the polka-dotted balls in the other basket,” a student named Jazmine uses her mouse to move the objects to their places. Then it’s on to the core activity of her 90 minutes in the lab: a lesson on counting and grouping using software from DreamBox. . . . A bit later, she’ll read a book from a box targeted at her exact reading level, and make a return visit to the computer to take a short quiz about what she read.
Hybrid schools realize productivity gains, Schorr and McGriff writes. Rocketship hires an aide to monitor 43 students in the computer lab. The money saved is used to pay teachers more and keep class size down in the face-to-face part of the day.
In the future, Rocketship hopes children will be able to “learn much of their basic skills via adaptive technology like the DreamBox software, leaving classroom teachers free to focus on critical-thinking instruction and extra help where kids are struggling.”
Likewise, teachers will be able to “prescribe” online attention to specific skills. Part of the model involves providing teachers with a steady stream of data that will help them adjust instruction to kids’ specific needs, and to guide afterschool tutors. overwhelming to teachers.
High Tech High uses ALEKS, “a Web-based, artificially intelligent assessment and learning system,” which provides “a snapshot of a student’s knowledge in a given content area, recognizing which topics he has mastered and which he has not.”
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Crimson Wife says: March 27, 2011 at 10:15 amTodd Oppenheimer’s The Flickering Mind: Saving Education from the False Promise of Techonology paints a significantly less rosy view of “hybrid” schools. It’s an interesting read, I highly recommend it.
tim-10-ber says: March 27, 2011 at 3:49 pmThanks for recommending the book. Just downloaded it. Off to a good start.
Ray says: March 27, 2011 at 3:57 pmA TFA teacher who works at a Rocketship school and who had some concerns about the model shared her ideas in her blog http://missstrawberryfields.teachforus.org/2011/01/24/for-better-or-for-worse/
There was nothing extreme, and she was generally positive about the school. The higher ups found out about it and made her take it down without responding to any of the problems she discussed. This raises all kinds of red flags for me. If they’re not doing anything wrong, why all the secrecy?
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