{"id":85,"date":"2011-01-12T01:36:17","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T01:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/?p=85"},"modified":"2011-01-12T01:36:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T01:36:34","slug":"bill-at-ted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/2011\/01\/12\/bill-at-ted\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill at TED"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill Gates gives TED talk<\/a><\/p>\n

I am not certain I regard Bill Gates as an expert in any area other than the business of technology. His philanthropic efforts warrant great respect.<\/p>\n

In this talk he does present his views on education (toward the middle) – How do you make a teacher great? Claims there are effective teaches in a narrow set of places (20%). Teacher prep is weak and is getting weaker. Having great teachers is the key and the variability in teacher quality is immense (unclear this is how measured).<\/p>\n

Characteristics of these teachers – not necessarily senior teachers (quality increases for only 3 years), MA\/MS does not matter. Says we have done little to study the characteristics of effective teachers (don’t agree). Pushes KIPP<\/a>. Big on test scores.<\/p>\n

Use digital video to identify effective strategies (this was a big push in PT3 – hardly a new idea, but PT3 is gone). I wonder if Northern Iowa still offers these resources.<\/p>\n

Bill Gates has also taken to writing an annual letter outlining some of his initiatives. Here is the portion of this letter<\/a> dealing with education.<\/p>\n

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