Two Stances, Three Genres, and Four Intractable Dilemmas for the Future of L@S
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Claims that 50% of grade 6–12 courses go online by 2019 and that a few MOOCs would replace universities fail to materialize; the pandemic sends ~1 billion learners home and reveals that LMSs and video telephony/Zoom dominate practice. Classification splits tools into instructor-guided, algorithm-guided (adaptive tutors), and peer-guided (Scratch, fan fiction); modest gains—Sal Khan’s lab reports ~20–30% state test improvement from ~30–60 minutes/week of software—coexist with four dilemmas: the curse of the familiar, the edtech Matthew effect, routine assessment traps, and the toxic power of data and experiments.
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