This is a post from Joanne Jacobs uncritically restating some of the latest nonsense on online learning from Forbes. What we read from Natalie Wexler in Forbes is the same old paean to direct instruction and learning facts that a certain segment of the community has been promoting for years now. This time the argument is based on a recent book by British writer Daisy Christodoulou that we are told "makes clear, the education establishment—in the U.S., the U.K., and no doubt other places—doesn't have a clue" because "ed tech is mostly just replicating existing ineffectual approaches to teaching, and sometimes making them worse." It then goes on to propose more existing ineffectual approaches to teaching, for example, having students memorize facts.
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