Twitter Book Club: David Tyack & Larry Cuban's (1995) Tinkering Toward Utopia - Chapter 5

Chapter 5: Reinventing Schooling

"In a mission with such high stakes, many leaders thought it time to bypass traditional educators and to ask busine... http://tl.gd/ai3cjlless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"Faith in electronic pedagogy has returned again and again." Tyack & Cubanless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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& it's usually ill-placed faith RT “@anderscj: "Faith in electronic pedagogy has returned again and again." Tyack & Cuban”less than a minute ago via Twitter for iPhone Favorite Retweet ReplyJerrid Kruse
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"The first stage in reform was to convince citizens that the present system of schooling was inefficient, anachroni... http://tl.gd/ai3iu9less than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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@anderscj sounds a lot like the hyperbolic rhetoric we hear in today's world, no?less than a minute ago via Twitter for iPhone Favorite Retweet ReplyJerrid Kruse
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@jerridkruse exactlyless than a minute ago via Twitterrific Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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@anderscj I love Larry Cuban. Do you follow his blog?less than a minute ago via Twitter for iPhone Favorite Retweet ReplyJerrid Kruse
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@jerridkruse I read it occasionally. I am on the fence regarding Cuban. I see him often as an uber-pessimist but often right.less than a minute ago via Twitterrific Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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@jerridkruse I also think he misses quite a bit. Like the difference between schooling & education for example.less than a minute ago via Twitterrific Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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@jerridkruse I also feel he desires a return to non-institutional forms of schooling but all his work shows how it can't be done.less than a minute ago via Twitterrific Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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@jerridkruse I get very depressed reading his work.less than a minute ago via Twitterrific Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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@jerridkruse not for most, but there will always be underserved & under-representedless than a minute ago via Twitterrific Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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@anderscj sometimes I feel same as him. Overly pessimistic, but fear I'm right ;).less than a minute ago via Twitter for iPhone Favorite Retweet ReplyJerrid Kruse
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@anderscj thats fair. But would argue his focus is on schooling.less than a minute ago via Twitter for iPhone Favorite Retweet ReplyJerrid Kruse
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"Advocates of technology sometimes promised 'teacher-proof' instruction (as if machines and software were free-stan... http://tl.gd/ai3kdjless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"Business-oriented reformers adopted economic terms when they discussed schools, using words like 'productivity,' '... http://tl.gd/ai3mgaless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"The hope that a few demonstration lighthouse schools would become models to transform entire school systems rarely... http://tl.gd/ai3q9pless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"When business leaders fell out of favor during the Great Depression, for a time so did much of the impulse to emul... http://tl.gd/ai45d8less than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"it did become clear that effective teaching of educationally disadvantaged children was no simple matter to be sol... http://tl.gd/ai4ee5less than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"In the top-down process of advocating and implementing technology, teachers were rarely consulted, though it was m... http://tl.gd/ai4gjmless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"Teachers have regularly used technologies to enhance their regular instruction but rarely to transform their teaching." Tyack & Cubanless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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@anderscj @courosa I AM GUILTY OF THIS - please expand on this idealess than a minute ago via TweetDeck Favorite Retweet ReplyScott Lewis
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@siwels196 @courosa read Seymour Papert's The Children's Machineless than a minute ago via Twitterrific Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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@anderscj @courosa wow from 1993? I wonder if there has been an updateless than a minute ago via TweetDeck Favorite Retweet ReplyScott Lewis
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@siwels196 @courosa no update needed. That book rings truer today than it did 18 years ago.less than a minute ago via Twitterrific Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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RT @anderscj: @siwels196 @courosa read Seymour Papert's The Children's Machine -> A gift: http://ht.ly/4XYrBless than a minute ago via HootSuite Favorite Retweet ReplyOLPC MéXicO
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RT @anderscj: @siwels196 @courosa read Seymour Papert's The Children's Machine -> A gift: http://ht.ly/4XYrBless than a minute ago via HootSuite Favorite Retweet ReplyOLPC MéXicO
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@anderscj @courosa that is sad but thank you for the recommendationless than a minute ago via TweetDeck Favorite Retweet ReplyScott Lewis
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@anderscj: @siwels196 @courosa One more - Papert about Tyack and Cuban ;)less than a minute ago via HootSuite Favorite Retweet ReplyOLPC MéXicO
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@anderscj: @siwels196 @courosa One more - Papert about Tyack and Cuban ;)less than a minute ago via HootSuite Favorite Retweet ReplyMariana Ludmila
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@anderscj: @siwels196 @courosa One more - Papert about Tyack and Cuban ;) http://ht.ly/4XYA3less than a minute ago via HootSuite Favorite Retweet ReplyOLPC MéXicO
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@anderscj: @siwels196 @courosa One more - Papert about Tyack and Cuban ;) http://ht.ly/4XYAaless than a minute ago via HootSuite Favorite Retweet ReplyMariana Ludmila
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@Yaquesita thanks!less than a minute ago via Twitterrific Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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RT @anderscj "Teachers have...used technologies to enhance their regular instruction but rarely to transform their teaching." Tyack & Cubanless than a minute ago via Nambu Favorite Retweet ReplyAlice MacGillivray
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@anderscj Hey, where is that quote from? cc @Trinejrless than a minute ago via web Favorite Retweet ReplyTashia Vera Dam
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@TashiaDam Tyack & Cuban (1995) Tinkering Towards Utopialess than a minute ago via Twitterrific Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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@anderscj - jeg arbejder med en lille ting på området, så tusind tak! (troede det var et digitalt quote, men nu kan jeg lede)less than a minute ago via web Favorite Retweet ReplyTashia Vera Dam
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@anderscj I will find that book!! Thanks to you Techno Constructivist (cool name;)) cc @tashiadamless than a minute ago via Twitter for iPhone Favorite Retweet ReplyTrine Juul Røttig
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So true, sad but true RT @anderscj "Teachers have regularly used technologies to enhance their regular instruc… (cont) http://deck.ly/~J90biless than a minute ago via TweetDeck Favorite Retweet ReplyFernando Luís Santos
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MT via @courosa @anderscj: Teachers hv regularly used technologies 2enhance their regular instruction but rarely 2 transform their teaching.less than a minute ago via Twitter for iPhone Favorite Retweet ReplyPam Holcomb
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@anderscj Pleasure! Hope you enjoy them!less than a minute ago via HootSuite Favorite Retweet ReplyMariana Ludmila
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"Simply having access to computers and learning to use them as tools is only part of the story of the educational u... http://tl.gd/ai4lvlless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"Low-income students are more likely to do drill and practice on computers than to use them for problem solving and... http://tl.gd/ai4mqgless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"Computers can communicate efficiently and enhance learning, but often what humans place in them is pedestrian." Tyack & Cubanless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"Outsiders' campaigns to create competition among teachers for merit pay and to erect career ladders for them have ... http://tl.gd/ai4p9vless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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@Yaquesita nice to 2 c Papert made same Papert-Tyack & Cuban connection I did. These texts are great companions. Nice contrast & convergenceless than a minute ago via Twitterrific Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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