Education

asynchronous, in order to allow more individually appropriate scheduling. Stuff is headed in that direction anyway, because of the internet and online schooling, but that will fall short, without some consistent personal human contact.

Why not just have physical resources and persons that are available all of the time, 8 a - 8 p, and have authentic assessments that document where a given individual is in whatever they are doing (and here the word "authentic" means actual benchmark samples of all of the different things that a person does, some of which the person themselves select as part of that portfolio of assessment examples, which obviously could be multi-media in nature, so you could actually see the student do things, or view a 3 D or holographic picture of their work, or sound files, or do you know there's even a 3 D "printer" now that will fabricate workable objects out of polymers of somesort . . . ) anyway, the idea of the authentic assessments is so that individual students and the system can keep track over long, even very long, periods of time what individuals are doing and how their skills and aptitudes are changing due to learning experiences.

I know this is so unusual that it sounds crazy to some people, but if we cared, we'd do it right, and my God, look at the money we wasted on that horrible crime against humanity in Iraq (and elsewhere, technically), if we can afford that sort of thing, why can't we decide to afford this? We have maintained these kinds of physical resources for the military, why can't we do it for the nation's children???????