{"id":1750,"date":"2016-03-09T15:05:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T19:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2016-03-10T08:17:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T12:17:08","slug":"learn-different-from-the-new-yorker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1750","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Learn Different&#8221; from the New Yorker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2016\/03\/07\/altschools-disrupted-education\">this piece<\/a> on Sunday and this paragraph has stuck with me all week: <\/p>\n<p>The point of the hackathon was to sketch out in code potential solutions to \u201crobot tasks\u201d\u2014<strong>routine aspects of a teacher\u2019s job that don\u2019t require teaching skills.<\/strong> Kimberly Johnson, the head of product success and training, addressed the team. <strong>\u201cBasically, what we have told teachers is we have hired you for your creative teacher brains, and anytime you are doing something that doesn\u2019t require your creative teacher brain that a computer could be doing as well as or better than you, then a computer should do it,<\/strong>\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been racking my brain all week trying to come up with a &#8220;robot task&#8221; I do that consumes more than ten-fifteen seconds. Some robot tasks are also things that students should learn to do as part of daily life: organizing their work into a table of contents or plugging up computers or taking care of the room. And most &#8220;robot tasks&#8221; I like to use as a break from intellectual work:  taking attendance or passing back the initial pile of papers for kids to sort themselves. <\/p>\n<p>None of these add up to even five minutes over the course of a day.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this piece on Sunday and this paragraph has stuck with me all week: The point of the hackathon was to sketch out in code potential solutions to \u201crobot tasks\u201d\u2014routine aspects of a teacher\u2019s job that don\u2019t require teaching skills. Kimberly Johnson, the head of product success and training, addressed the team. \u201cBasically, what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1750\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Learn Different&#8221; from the New Yorker<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-of-note"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-se","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1756,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions\/1756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}