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Mark Zuckerberg’s Automated Teaching Idea Is Deeply Flawed

By Natalia Kucirkova and Elizabeth FitzGerald 12/12/15 at 3:59 PM

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Although the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Personalized Learning Platform is not part of Facebook, the underlying principles are the same: human work is replaced by technology, as algorithms provide users with content based on an analysis of their past behavior and demonstrated interests.   . . .   Zuckerberg’s idea of personalized learning has three major flaws.

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The Top 50 Educational Apps Are Mostly All Stuck In The Stone Age

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And perhaps this lack of educational benchmarks explains why, overwhelmingly, most of the apps are basically just animated interactive quizzes. The study found that 71% “contained at least one activity that we classified as a puzzle, game, or quiz. These were activities which had right and wrong answers, rather than open-ended designs.” 92% “contained some form of animation.” 45% included “interactive ‘hotspots,’ or sections of the screen that more and/or make noise when touched in ways that are not central to the game or story.”

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