The Gates Paradox – teaser
Here’s an excerpt from my upcoming essay!
Call it the Gates Paradox – the power of your voice in the “education reform” debate is proportional to the distance from the classroom (and your proximity to Silicon Valley), multiplied by the amount of money you earn. Of course, each additional media outlet owned increases the influence by a factor of ten.
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Chronicle of Higher Education Review of ATM
Arthur and I were honored that our non-fiction comic “Automated Teaching Machine” was reviewed in the Chronicle of Higher Education. I never thought I’d write that sentence…
From Kafka to Computers, a Graphic History of
Automation in Education
By Megan O’Neil
As the debate about the role of technology in education builds, two California community-college professors have published their own commentary on the automation of teaching—in the form of an illustrated comic.
The comic was published by the news site Truthout and has been circulating among faculty members on California community-college e-mail lists.
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/from-kafka-to-computers-an-illustrated-history-of-automation-in-education/46149
The Disaster Capitalism Curriculum: The High Price of Education Reform (with Dan Archer)
Last year, I had the honor to work with the illustrious illustrator and journalist Dan Archer on our series “The Disaster Capitalism Curriculum,” a three-part non-fiction expose of the reality of education reform at Truthout. Here’s a taste, with a real interview with a Washington DC English instructor:
By Adam Bessie and Dan Archer. Courtesy of Truthout.Org
Part I focuses on Washington DC:
http://www.truth-out.org/art/item/9391-the-disaster-capitalism-curriculum-the-high-price-of-education-reform-episode-i
Part II on New Orleans:
Part III on Finland (including an original interview with Pasi Sahlberg):
Automated Teaching Machine: A Graphic Introduction to the End of Human Teachers
Human beings in the classroom? That’s SOOO 20th century.
By Adam Bessie and Arthur King, courtesy of Truthout.org
Check out the full version of my non-fiction comic with the fabulous human artist and educator Arthur King at Truthout: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17980-automated-teaching-machine-a-graphic-introduction-to-the-end-of-human-teachers
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