http://tomliamlynch.org/2010/01/02/a-response-to-michael-horn-disrupting-class/ On literacy and technology and education Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:45:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://tomliamlynch.org/2010/01/02/a-response-to-michael-horn-disrupting-class/comment-page-1/#comment-414 michael_horn Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:47:44 +0000 http://tomliamlynch.org/2010/01/02/a-response-to-michael-horn-disrupting-class/#comment-414 Thanks for your response and congratulations on becoming a father! It might be easier to chat about some of these points in a dialogue if you'd have an interest at some point. I actually don't think we disagree as much on a few of these points as you paint. Because I feel we are misrepresented on them (the Escalante point or the implication in the post that because a course is online some or many students could not read texts offline for example), I suspect that we weren't as clear as we needed to be in the book or that there are some other misunderstanding. Your fundamental points about asking the right questions and about having a deeper dialogue on the book are both good ones that I'd be welcome to--and in fact have done several times with researchers at the Harvard GSE and other such forums. We have learned a tremendous amount since as a result and our views have evolved as a result, so I always welcome more. That's a core reason we created the think tank Innosight Institute--we knew that we would not get the whole story right in the book of course and that there would also be significant gaps, and we wanted a place for an ongoing conversation to learn and improve the thoughts over time to move toward a more student-centric education system. Thanks for your response and congratulations on becoming a father! It might be easier to chat about some of these points in a dialogue if you’d have an interest at some point. I actually don’t think we disagree as much on a few of these points as you paint. Because I feel we are misrepresented on them (the Escalante point or the implication in the post that because a course is online some or many students could not read texts offline for example), I suspect that we weren’t as clear as we needed to be in the book or that there are some other misunderstanding. Your fundamental points about asking the right questions and about having a deeper dialogue on the book are both good ones that I’d be welcome to–and in fact have done several times with researchers at the Harvard GSE and other such forums. We have learned a tremendous amount since as a result and our views have evolved as a result, so I always welcome more. That’s a core reason we created the think tank Innosight Institute–we knew that we would not get the whole story right in the book of course and that there would also be significant gaps, and we wanted a place for an ongoing conversation to learn and improve the thoughts over time to move toward a more student-centric education system.

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