Reblogged from CURMUDGUCATION
Here’s lead from the EdWeek article:
Pediatrician Priscilla Chan and Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg are gearing up to invest hundreds of millions of dollars a year in a new vision of “whole-child personalized learning,” with the aim of dramatically expanding the scope and scale of efforts to provide every student with a customized education.
The power couple’s Big Initiative has announced its intent to “support the development of software that might help teachers better recognize and respond to each student’s academic needs—while also supporting a holistic approach to nurturing children’s social, emotional, and physical development.” So, slap the child in front of a screen, but somehow have the child turn out physically and emotionally well-rounded.