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The Drive Episode 6 – Equity

This episode is more challenging to our thinking, not so much on the edtech side, but in general. Thanks for listening and I appreciate your feedback. If you enjoy the podcast, please share it with other teachers.

-Scott

3 Responses to "The Drive Episode 6 – Equity"

chineseteacher8 says:

August 29, 2015 at 2:45 pm

Expanding your horizons? Good for you! Trying to come to terms with our nation’s educational funding approach that is systemically biased against equity, which in addition to obvious moral implications, also has a Great Deal to do with the ability to implement edtech inside (and more importantly, outside) the classroom? Good for you. Keep reading, keep asking questions!

By the way, you are correct that teaching volume integrals is much harder than teaching area integrals in calculus. (Ok, confession, I asked my math prof husband to give me a quote about what you said! I can barely remember how to solve for x in the simplest of middle-school algebraic equations. But I know 8 languages so I must not be a total idiot. Social IQ = that of toddler, so maybe I’m just an idiot savant lol!)

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1. Teaching From Here says:
  
  August 29, 2015 at 3:20 pm
  
  I have the most difficult time with one language, so between us we balance the universe 🙂
  
  Thank you for your comments!!
  
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jcbjr9455 says:

September 1, 2015 at 6:36 pm

Yes, it is a tough problem – as all meaningful problems are… But, you are absolutely right when you say “There is a solution?” Oh sure, there are the finger-pointers: ‘The politicians put the money elsewhere in the budget.” The politicians will never mandate anything but testing for ranking students, teachers, and schools.” The town residents are too poor to support technology purchases.” Notice that these three examples are negative – as is the usual focus!!!

I’d bet my last dollar that without increased budgets, THERE IS a solution. The first requirement is to seek to find the solutions rather than justify our beliefs that there are no solutions. I’m believing there are citizens, teachers, techies, students that can come together to identify those solutions.

Bottom line: It’s much easier to be negative…. Great podcast as usual!!!

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