Tom Liam Lynch :: New Literacies, New Literatures » accountability http://tomliamlynch.org On literacy and technology and education Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:57:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Accountability Paradox http://tomliamlynch.org/2009/03/24/the-accountability-paradox/ http://tomliamlynch.org/2009/03/24/the-accountability-paradox/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:22:58 +0000 tomliamlynch http://tomliamlynch.org/?p=291
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    • ]]>     There are two problems with the word “accountability” as it is being used by the Obama administration. (To be fair, it’s the way the word is used in education in general too.) The problems are “account” and “ability”.

    As described in fair detail in a recent book called Disrupting Class—which explores the future of online learning using Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences as a starting point—students learn at differently, different ways and paces. In short, their abilities differ infinitely. Accounting, however, works in the opposite way: it is about a uniform system of measurement. Is it about students’ abilities or about accounting kids like numbers? Either way, ditching the word is a first step.

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