Disrupting Class

It is laced with four types of interdependencies. (Location 715)

The result of these four factors—technological improvements that make learning more engaging; research advances that enable the design of student-centric software appropriate to each individual learner; the looming teacher shortage; and inexorable cost pressures—is that 10 years from the publication of this book, online, student-centric learning will account for 50 percent of the “seat miles” (Location 1824)

determine the extent to which students have mastered a body of material and are ready to progress. The second job is to compare students against one another. (Location 1911)

They might attempt to pack in features to appeal to different types of learners, but textbooks by their very nature are fixed and static. (Location 2298)

the coefficient of correlation between the words spoken to the child and the child’s measured IQ was .78—about (Location 2600)