The 5th Estate: Citizen News » Individuated Media http://www.biverson.com/5th-estate How economics, open source, digitization, and the 21st century are transforming journalism by Barbara K. Iverson Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:07:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 ‘School of One’ Pilot Program Under Way in Chinatown Middle School 131 – NYTimes.com http://www.biverson.com/5th-estate/2009/07/%e2%80%98school-of-one%e2%80%99-pilot-program-under-way-in-chinatown-middle-school-131-nytimes-com/ http://www.biverson.com/5th-estate/2009/07/%e2%80%98school-of-one%e2%80%99-pilot-program-under-way-in-chinatown-middle-school-131-nytimes-com/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:06:41 +0000 Barbara Iverson http://www.biverson.com/5th-estate/?p=21 students arrive at school, they receive their individual playlists identifying the lessons they have to complete for the day, which could involve virtual tutoring online, computer worksheets or small-group lessons with a classroom teacher. Their schedules are also displayed on large television screens, akin to flight schedule displays in airports.

In a room a few steps away, several administrators spend their day looking over more than a dozen computer screens displaying the students’ playlists, how quickly those students are progressing through their tasks and what the students are looking at on their own screens.

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