College instruction more closely resembles a musical performance than an auto assembly line.
Nevertheless, a genre of "how to" poems does exist, and poems of instruction – more or less literal – continue to be written.
When Grunwald Associates asked school-district technology leaders to rate the competency of their teachers in using the Internet for instruction, more than one-third of the teachers in large districts were classified as novices.
As shepherds of schoolchildren, educators have a stake in promoting a federal economic policy that focuses on immediate income support for the unemployed, because this in itself could make instruction more effective.
They are going into homes where groups of friends gather in a comfortable, warm setting; into the workplace to make instruction more convenient; and into colleges, where women often feel most vulnerable.
As the company develops and works with more data and content — major universities like University of Nevada, Las Vegas, are adopting its technology, as is the publishing giant Pearson — it will tailor instruction more finely.
