Yesterday’s NYT’s contained an interesting article on the value of text messaging to improve compliance of teenage transplant recipients with daily medications. It is not clear from the study whether the messaging or the back-end warning messages sent to parents or caregivers had the most impact but the results were significant.
The combination of autonomy, and the respect shown thereby, with caring oversight are instructive for other learning and management environments. I would expect that multimodal systems that offer a range of learning options to students (paper, small group learning, online and cell based approaches) while allowing teachers a transparent and easy to use set of tools to ensure continual growth on the part of the student in such a complex environment will prove valuable.
Structure and autonomy, empathy and rigor are the coordinates of this rich environment.
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