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ANALOG: Let’s Build a More Human World

The Next Big Idea

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Virtual School Is Not a New Idea

Sally Kohn: I pray that children and students only ever learn from a screen in the most tightly restricted circumstances. Virtual school or remote school is not a new idea, she says; Thomas Edison predicted we would no longer need schools with recorded sound and moving pictures. The MOOC movement as soon as they moved it out to actual universities had a 10% completion rate, said Kohn.

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