[IAEP] Response to Intervention: What is an intervention?

[Edward Cherlin]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:47, Caroline Meeks
<caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
> I gave a brief overview of RTI here:
>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI95fgBnJWI
> Having a process engineering background I found the concept of measuring,
> changing things, and tracking the response to those changes very sensible
> and straight forward.

Of course.

> However, as I read I never got a clear picture of what an intervention
> really was.

The most fundamental problem, when compounded with the fact that most
people in education don't even know what questions to ask in order to
learn something new. But we do know that if you don't ask the right
questions, you can't find the right answers. I have written about this
in the context of the XO, where one set of questions is the
conventional "bigger, faster, conventional software" set, and another
is "ruggedness, low-power, Free Software" set. In education, the
standard set of questions is given by the standardized tests and their
authorized Right Answers, which say nothing about discovery,
collaboration, deep understanding, changing the school culture, and so
on. Or about how students approach questions that don't have Right
Answers.

> Today I found this website which is selling a computer program that could be
> used as an intervention. Note that generally, in Boston at least,
> interventions are not computer programs, they are on paper and have
> instructions for the teacher and materials for the student.
> But since we are a computer learning platform i'm interested in what a
> computer based intervention would look like.
> There are demos of quite a bit of their software. This is an interesting one
> to start with:
> http://www.scilearn.com/products/brainapps/hoop-nut/
> Its focuses very specifically on discriminating phonemes.
> This is a good video on the basics of the neuroscience. It oversimplifies a
> bit but its still pretty good
> introduction: http://www.scilearn.com/our-approach/the-fast-forword-program/brain-science-video/
> I think this story told by a student is also a good overview of what they
> are trying to
> do: http://www.scilearn.com/results/success-stories/real-life-stories/willie-brown.php?video=Willie%20Brown#video
> I am not endorsing this software, I just found their website and think its a
> very concrete way of seeing what software that supports this type of
> learning would look like.  I'm just learning myself.
> Cheers,
> Caroline
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> Caroline Meeks
> Solution Grove
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