tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post7029331822547591800..comments2024-03-17T04:09:26.074-04:00Comments on SpeEdChange: Who's Behind the Curtain?irasocolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01412837280249622430noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post-23303437449022192012008-12-17T16:07:00.000-05:002008-12-17T16:07:00.000-05:00Hi IraI enjoy your blog and I enjoyed the intervie...Hi Ira<BR/>I enjoy your blog and I enjoyed the interview on Open Education. I've been getting some interesting responses since I wrote about it if you are interested.<BR/>Teach for America certainly causes some strong emotions in people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post-7466660044153855172008-12-10T16:48:00.000-05:002008-12-10T16:48:00.000-05:00Hi Ira,I just wanted to alert you and your readers...Hi Ira,<BR/><BR/>I just wanted to alert you and your readers to my special education law blog at:<BR/>http://specialeducationlawblog.blogspot.com/<BR/><BR/>Thanks,<BR/><BR/>Jim GerlJim Gerlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12482331907215552507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post-22371755307990184322008-12-08T13:49:00.000-05:002008-12-08T13:49:00.000-05:00Ira,Really great points in this post. You say a lo...Ira,<BR/>Really great points in this post. You say a lot of things I've been thinking about. I also put up a post this morning about Joel Klein and interest-based reading and how the Kleins and Rhees talk about their program as bringing equity when it does the very opposite. Calling the Rhee program out an out racist whether you look at kids or the teachers in DC is powerful stuff. I just updated another post on Rhee by quoting a bunch of these points. <BR/><BR/>Normed notes onlinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post-2559021238017969942008-12-06T23:27:00.000-05:002008-12-06T23:27:00.000-05:00Derek,I do follow you, and I am perhaps over-reach...Derek,<BR/><BR/>I do follow you, and I am perhaps over-reaching, but without the push of textbook publishers at the beginning I tend to doubt this technology would have reached critical mass. <BR/><BR/>We can - and we should - always try to take what the marketplace hands us and use it to our own advantage. I believe that you are doing that, just as I am suggesting using other "marketplace gifts." But I think - and I actually think DR. Bugeja has helped me with this - is to understand the market's role in this.<BR/><BR/>This is true with TFA and people like Joel Klein and Michelle Rhee as well. The participants in TFA are not "evil." They have been taught that they are helping. Klein and Rhee probably do believe in what they are doing. It is the "projects" themselves which are colonial in nature, and thus, to me, extraordinarily problematic. Perhaps some within those projects can turn them, as well. We need a "Roger Casement" within those ranks.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the conversation, it's been great.<BR/><BR/>- Ira Socolirasocolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01412837280249622430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post-13955166399060141502008-12-06T22:41:00.000-05:002008-12-06T22:41:00.000-05:00Hi, Ira. I'll make just a couple of quick comment...Hi, Ira. I'll make just a couple of quick comments here since we've already had much discussion over on my blog. <BR/><BR/>One is that it's a bit of a reach to say that a particular clicker vendor is trying to sell textbooks. A couple of years ago, clicker vendors often partnered with publishers to bundle their clickers with textbooks as a way to entice faculty to adopt clickers. The clickers were cheaper for students when bundled, but, of course, bundling made the used textbook market more complicated for students.<BR/><BR/>These days, however, many campuses have standardized on clicker systems, meaning that students purchase clickers in their first or second years on campus, then use those clickers throughout their coursework. This practice has meant that there's far less bundling of clickers with textbooks going on now than there was a few years ago, so the clicker vendors and textbook publishers aren't partnering in quite the same ways they once were.<BR/><BR/>I think it's safer to say that clicker vendors are making their receivers available for free so that they'll sell more clickers, not more textbooks.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for continuing this discussion. I know we disagree on a few key points, but I've enjoyed the conversation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com