Have you read Lies My Teacher Told Me by Lowen(sp?)?
For some reason, the "phonics" approach to reading instruction became associated with the political right, and the "look-say" and later "whole language" approaches with the political left
Really? I thought it the other way around. Huh.
Because that book concerns curricula Before Internet it probably doesn't mention the latest wrinkle: as schools and curricula start involving internet tech, they adopt platforms which embody certain presumptions about teaching and learning... very, very narrow presumptions. Online instruction is thus often less flexible than classroom. If it won't run on the publisher's or the schools' LMS, they won't adopt it. So products are developed within the very narrow constraints of educational behavior the LMS supports: lecture, discussion, drill, quizes. *sigh*
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Have you read Lies My Teacher Told Me by Lowen(sp?)?
For some reason, the "phonics" approach to reading instruction became associated with the political right, and the "look-say" and later "whole language" approaches with the political left
Really? I thought it the other way around. Huh.
Because that book concerns curricula Before Internet it probably doesn't mention the latest wrinkle: as schools and curricula start involving internet tech, they adopt platforms which embody certain presumptions about teaching and learning... very, very narrow presumptions. Online instruction is thus often less flexible than classroom. If it won't run on the publisher's or the schools' LMS, they won't adopt it. So products are developed within the very narrow constraints of educational behavior the LMS supports: lecture, discussion, drill, quizes. *sigh*