{"id":13553,"date":"2015-02-26T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T23:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13553"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:07:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:07:19","slug":"what-happens-when-computers-not-teachers-pick-what-students-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/what-happens-when-computers-not-teachers-pick-what-students-learn","title":{"rendered":"What happens when computers, not teachers, pick what students learn?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/authors.nichole_dobo.html\" rel=\"author\">Nichole Dobo<\/a> \u2014 Slate<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"text text-1 parbase section\">NEW YORK\u2014Teacher John Garuccio wrote a multiplication problem on a digital whiteboard in a corner of an unusually large classroom at David A. Boody Intermediate School in Brooklyn.<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-2 text parbase section\">\n<p>About 150 sixth-graders are in this math class\u2014yes, 150\u2014but Garuccio\u2019s task was to help just 20 of them, with a lesson tailored to their needs. He asked, \u201cWhere does the decimal point go in the product?\u201d After several minutes of false starts, a boy offered the correct answer. Garuccio praised him, but did not stop there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-3 text parbase section\">\n<p>\u201cCome on, you know the answer, tell me why,\u201d Garuccio said. \u201cIt\u2019s good to have the right answer, but you need to know why.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/future_tense\/2015\/02\/teach_to_one_what_happens_when_computers_pick_what_students_learn.single.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nichole Dobo \u2014 Slate NEW YORK\u2014Teacher John Garuccio wrote a multiplication problem on a digital whiteboard in a corner of an unusually large classroom at David A. Boody Intermediate School in Brooklyn. About 150 sixth-graders are in this math class\u2014yes, 150\u2014but Garuccio\u2019s task was to help just 20 of them, with a lesson tailored [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46605,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13553\/revisions\/46605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}