Nothing to see here.😱Just a World Bank Blockchain in Education working group explaining how people skills will be machine-readable data that can be held & controlled from a digital wallet app & exchanged like currency for learning & employment (or loan) opportunities. 🧵
When referring to an "exchange rate," they mean that skills & competencies will have standardized definitions so that the data on people's proficiency in them can be interoperable-->able to be communicated across the various systems in the network of the Internet of Education.
T3 Innovation Network (2nd pic 👆, bottom left) is a US Chamber of Commerce Foundation project meant to develop and use public-private standards for comprehensive employment & earnings records (they are in charge of making the data have an "exchange rate"/be interoperable).
Nevermind that the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation, who is building out the Learning Employment Record (LER) specifications are totally on board with companies being held to ESG standards. Will that effect what skills learners will have to acquire for employment? You bet.
T3 has an LER hub, where learner competencies can be defined so they can be quantified, measured & shared as interoperable data across systems.Their Competency Framework Extraction Module can be used to find competency frameworks, make new ones or crosswalk frameworks with others
We can only hope that it won't be like the crosswalk that happened with the American School Counselor Association's Student Mindsets & Behaviors needed for College & Career Readiness with Learning for Justice's Social Justice Standards. Esp since this will be linked to employment
Some examples from the LER hub Competencies Extraction Tool for "Degree Qualifications": what students should know and be able to do to earn associate, bachelor's and master's degrees.👀👇
If knowledge & skills will be like currency in the Internet of Education & one doesn't possess the "correct" competencies-even subjective social emotional ones-that colleges/employers want students to have, how will one go to college, or get a job/loan, etc.?
Does anyone really think these public private partnerships who are all about ESG & achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals are participating to provide better options for students? This is about social engineering/credit & gathering data for their human capital investments
Please, read this thread‼️ I implore you. forbes.com/sites/alisongr…
This article makes the Internet of Education (IoE) sound sexy, convenient, integrated, democratic, etc. Let me tell you the REAL story of how this model will violate U.S. individualism & control society.
Interesting that the author doesn't disclose that she is on the Steering Committee for the Learning Economy Foundation who is behind the IoE. learningeconomy.io/#down5
Nice bit of marketing strategy there to conduct a heavily biased "interview" to assert this radical idea is good.
This tweet thread details how education reforms to fragment competencies & earn them thru credentials, business reforms of ESGs & currency reforms toward digital blockchain-type currency are all linked & part of a larger global agenda of social behaviorism.
REL Midwest, who put on this webinar 👆, is part of a network of 10 regional education labs funded by the US Dept of Ed's Institute of Educational Sciences.
Your taxpayer funds are being used to brainwash children & get them to want to overthrow our system. This is seditious!
These REL labs were created to work with educators & policymakers to improve learner outcomes & instead are instructing them on how to indoctrinate children with classroom practices that undermine our country by pushing collectivism (communism) & CRT tenets like systemic racism.
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This 2003 article is applicable today re: School Choice trap
"Under systems education, all really does mean all. The system must include everyone. To that end, homeschoolers must be drawn back into the system. This is to be accomplished in 1 of 2 ways:"🧵
"1) offer the homeschoolers incentives (carrots) sufficient enough to encourage them back into the system whether they know they are back in the system or not"
(**COUGH** "Money following the child" bills)
Public $ being used for homeschooling srvcs, curriculum, assessments, etc.
"2) force the homeschoolers back into the system."
In order to meet graduation requirements, students must demonstrate mastery of the skills the gov't says are needed to graduate (tied to state assessments). State assessments, curricula & standards are now focused around SEL.
Conspiracies?I have hard evidence that Social Emotional Learning is a Maoist-style thought-reform program bent on pushing kids into a critical consciousness to get them to be activists for particular causes & ideologies. You can look away/deny it but it doesn't negate the truth🧵
CASEL's VP of Research, Robert Jagers, unveiling to educators at their 2019 conference, their new definition of social emotional learning: Transformative SEL 👀👇
CASEL invited Dena Simmons to talk about how SEL can be leveraged to create "the social change we need"/teaching kids to be "anti-racist" (which is not just "not racist," but willing to dismantle the system that they believe is systemically racist). 👀
ZERO authority?? The devil is in the details.
Exhibit A: "Curriculum," in definitions, has to be approved by the Arizona Dept. of Ed, as well as some other items. I'm sure it will have to be "culturally responsive." Have you seen Pearson's content lately?
Exhibit B: Of the options parents are given to spend their money on-tuition, fees and textbooks, tutoring & teaching services have to be from an "eligible" institution. What makes them eligible? Accreditation. Have you seen what Cognia is up to lately?
Exhibit C: Assessments. Starting in the 2022-23 school year, normative assessments will be required. Not only do these assess reading & mathematics, but many of them are computer adaptive & assess social emotional skills=data collection.
This 2006 article brings up salient points about the dangers of voucher & ESA legislation today. johnlocke.org/school-choice/
The author notes that while he "likes" the idea of school vouchers, in practice it won't work "unless we want gov't control of private & homeschool education."
#1-Gov't already feels empowered to regulate even when there is not even an indirect relationship between themselves & private education (as in the case with WI DPI 👇). Imagine what will happen when we directly tie public funding through vouchers/ESAs to private & homeschools.
#2-"The voting public hasn’t been able to stop the education mess that exists now–why should we expect the public to stop gov't control of all education." The antidote for gov't failure in education isn't more gov't involvement in private education tied to public funding.