The 'Naked Truth' about innovation is that if you just keep doing the same thing, nothing changes. Thus you get, not only in 1:1 computer initiatives, but in pretty much every effort to reform education, a null result. "A more likely cause [of "many attempts at improvement but few effects"] is the autonomous, idiosyncratic, non-collaborative, and non-differentiated teaching practices that largely remain uninformed by research about what it takes to significantly improve student learning and achievement." Good article about efforts to implement technology and what would constitute a genuine trial of new tools and methods. More from the current issue of JTLA.
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