“No longer is the teacher the bottleneck between students and knowledge. Rather, the teacher architects the environment”

The key, [Robin Britt] said, is personalized learning — breaking free of the mass-production model, tailoring the curriculum to the student and redesigning it around proven competence rather than accrued face time, so that each student can go at his own pace. “Now your job is not to dispense knowledge,” Britt told the trainees. “It’s to facilitate learning. No longer is the teacher the bottleneck between students and knowledge. Rather, the teacher architects the environment — in the classroom, on the tablet, online, everywhere.”

Carlo Rotella, “No Child Left Untableted”, The New York Times Magazine (15 September 2013), 29.

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