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Category Archives: New Era School Initiative (NESI)
UT – Dallas Individualized Interdisciplinary Studies
Here’s a B.A. and B.S. program that requires students to exercise initiative, personal discipline and intellectual self-sufficiency. It draws upon faculty experiments in classic higher education of the Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Major in Human Behavior at Peabody College in the early … Continue reading
Glossary – Learning with Tablet PCs 2.0
This glossary gives priority to terms that describe behavior of people as they learn, including with Tablet and other mobile PCs. It updates earlier glossary notes. It increases the number of terms and refines definitions, expecially those related to NESI … Continue reading
aLEAP and Monetized Learning
State minimum academic performance standards provide a useful step toward monetizing learning. Teachers have opposed these two indices of public school learning. I have opposed them also, partly because they limit convenient instructional work-arounds. Yet, we all know that we … Continue reading
Lifting Rationed Learning by 2020
Education Sector ran a 2-day chat about the expansion of “school choice” to public support of computer based individualized K12 student learning choices in and out of schools. The experts in the chat think this expansion will dominate public schools … Continue reading
Teachers’ Conflicts of Interest Ration Learning: NESI Conversation 11
This 11th conversation with Dr. W.E. Doynit describes how teacher choices can result in conflicts of interest and other “schoolhouse corruption” that reduce student learning. It details use of the learning code as part of academic performance management with and … Continue reading
10 Things to Know about NESI and Tablet PCs
1. NESI (New Era School Initiative) educators use learning efficiency to increase learning rates and fight ignorance faster. They use a risk-to-value assumption in their motto, “Decrease ignorance to increase choices.” That means, reduce risks of student failure to learn … Continue reading
NESI Teachers’ Motto "Decrease Ignorance to Increase Choices"
“Decrease ignorance to increase choices.” NESI teachers use this principle (motto) to focus development of the New Era School Initiative (NESI), including ways learners can efficiently adopt what others know in order to reach beyond those accomplishments. W.E. Doynit, Ph.D., … Continue reading
“Rationed Learning: …’Yes, but … ‘ ” Report Revisited
Dr. Bonnie Doowrite, Dr. I. T. Benn-Dunn, Ms. Donna Pahl (Wilkinson), and Dr. W. E. Doynit review the report Rationed Learning: A Conspiracy of ‘Yes, but … ‘ Doynit cited this report in the proposal to open the New Era … Continue reading
New Era School Initiative (NESI) Conversation 9: Teachers
This eighth conversation with Dr. W.E. Doynit extends descriptions of how to accelerate learning dramatically by increasing learning efficiency rates with and without Tablet and other mobile PCs. Topics: More responses to Robert Reed’s comments about lack of teacher willingness … Continue reading
5 Life-Improving Technologies
Did you read Layne’s post about 5 Life-Improving Technologies? I found it worthwhile, because I haven’t thought of Tablets, iPhones, printers, etc. as “improving” my life. I still hold a mental image of how a new Bendix front load tumble … Continue reading →