{"id":2924,"date":"2012-11-03T08:35:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T13:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=2924"},"modified":"2012-11-03T08:45:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T13:45:13","slug":"accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=2924","title":{"rendered":"Accountability?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m a curious guy who wonders a lot about the forces and rhetoric influencing education. At the risk of kicking a hornet’s nest and incurring the wrath of being flamed, I wish to raise what I honestly believe to be an important issue. If you are unfamiliar with my work, outspoken opposition to the standards movement, commitment to equity or embrace of computers in education, I humbly ask you to consider the questions posed in this blog post in the spirit with which they are intended – to stimulate thoughtful professional dialogue or at least Google my body of work.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A handful of educators have been blogging now for more than a decade. Countless others have fallen in love with social media. They make conference presentations showing viral YouTube videos and lead Twitter workshops. There is more than an air of grandiosity that accompanies the use of the tools known collectively as Web 2.0. This self-importance is manifest in two ways.<\/p>\n

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  1. Frustration that every educator hasn’t joined the PLN\/PLC\/social network\/Twitterverse\/blogopshere, because “if they only knew what I know…”<\/li>\n
  2. A few gazillion blog posts and tweets proclaiming the use of Web 2.0 as either already having transformed education or the prediction that it will transform education. A variation on this theme is the threat that social media will destroy, replace or delegitimize formal education.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Don’t shoot the messenger,\u00a0 but I have a very serious question to ask.<\/p>\n

    In this era of heightened educational “accountability,” why are there so few, if any, demands being made for evidence of Web 2.0’s efficacy in schools?<\/p>\n

    I have my own hypotheses, but I would prefer to read some of yours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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