New Models: When Images Are Better Than Words

One of the images from the Business Insider story.

Usually, I’m all about the words and I am always wary about reporting that focuses on innovation and speculation rather than what’s really going on in real life in most schools and seems scale-able to many more, but this image-heavy @meliarobin story describing a day in the life of students at @Altschools (in Business Insider) is a good way to help readers understand unfamiliar new model for individualized/blended learning, I think.

Check it all — the iPad sign-ins, individualized playlists, mixed-age groupings, coding and all the rest — at Silicon Valley wants to reinvent school.

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