#deficit model

When Grit Isn’t Enough

I’m reading When Grit Isn’t Enough: A High School Principal Examines How Poverty and Inequality Thwart the College-for-All Promise. I incorporated some quotes and thoughts from it into my The Pipeline Problem and the Meritocracy Myth and Mindset Marketing, Behaviorism, and Deficit Ideology posts.

I’ve been working the mindset marketing beat for a few years now, ever sinceLeader in Me arrived at…

Tech Regrets, Structural Ideology, and the Addiction Metaphor

I’ve noticed that the Center for Humane Technology shares some common ground with the worst of ed-tech. First, they frame things in terms of fixing individuals instead of systems.

In this post I want to focus on how the Center has constructed what they perceive as a problem with the digital ecosystem: the attention economy and our addiction to it. I question how they’ve constructed the problem in…

Tech Regrets and The Ethics of Ed-tech

There’s a new tale that’s being told with increasing frequency these days, in which tech industry executives and employees come forward – sometimes quite sheepishly, sometimes quite boldly – and admit that they have regrets, that they’re no longer “believers,” that they now recognize their work has been damaging to individuals and to society at large, that they were wrong.

These aren’t apologies…

When Grit Isn’t Enough

I’m reading When Grit Isn’t Enough: A High School Principal Examines How Poverty and Inequality Thwart the College-for-All Promise. I incorporated some quotes and thoughts from it into my The Pipeline Problem and the Meritocracy Myth and Mindset Marketing, Behaviorism, and Deficit Ideology posts.

I’ve been working the mindset marketing beat for a few years now, ever sinceLeader in Me arrived at…

Surveillance, Positive Behavior Support, and Intrinsic Motivation

https://twitter.com/rboren/status/904753216977547265

This video advocates surveillance and positive behavior support (PBS) behaviorism in schools. It has received a lot of criticism from educators.

The video itself is only two and a half minutes, but the way they efficiently pack in so much of what is wrong in schooling today is remarkable. To put it bluntly, it was a bunch of behaviorist…

Mindset Marketing, Behaviorism, and Deficit Ideology

The marketing of mindsets is everywhere. Grit, growth mindset, project-based mindset, entrepreneurial mindset, innovator’s mindset, and a raft of canned social-emotional skills programs are vying for public money. These notions jump straight from psychology departments to aphoristic word images shared on social media and marketing festooned on school walls.

Our elementary school has moved…

The deficit model is a business model, and ed-tech is a monster.

The deficit model is a business model. The assessment and ed-tech industries will not easily let it go. This business model prevents public education from changing. It turns charter schoolsinto hyper-capitalist deficit model shrines enthralled with data collected for and viewed through their business model—losing sight of humanity and kids. Inclusive pedagogy based on personal strengths, agency,…