It is not that teachers resent all research. But an extended advertisement posing as research? Or administrators mandating teachers implement new "researched-based" practices? Or research with questionable conclusions? Or research that ignores the day-to-day concerns of teachers? Or research on new ways to teacher-proof the curriculum?
Qualcomm funded a grant to provide smart phones to 100 ninth graders in North
Carolina for algebra study. Guess what, the study found that smart phones aided algebra learning. So let's all run out and get smart phones for the kids.
The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, Digital Millennial Consulting and Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and data solutions, today announced the joint distribution of 100 Smartphones to four high schools in three school districts across the state of North Carolina.
The thing is these smart phones are little different from the ones in the store. And schools feeling budget woes probably do not need smart phones for students. There are higher priorities, or should be.
Crossposted at School Crossing.