Well, that same Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, also co-founded Schoolhouse.world, a free, online, peer-to-peer tutoring platform – home to Dialogues.
As Khan put it best when describing Dialogues: “High-schoolers will log into a Zoom call with other students and a peer tutor, debate topics like immigration or Israel-Palestine, and rate one another on traits like empathy, curiosity, or kindness. The Schoolhouse.world site offers a scorecard: The more sessions you attend, and the more that your fellow participants recognize your virtues, the better you do.”
What could possibly go wrong?
And, as if things couldn’t get any worse – eight colleges actually love this idea:
· Colby
· Columbia
· Johns Hopkins
· MIT
· Northwestern
· University of Chicago
· Vanderbilt
· Washington University in St. Louis
And so this fall, they will begin accepting “Dialogues” portfolios from Schoolhouse.world as part of students’ admissions applications.
It’s called a Civility Transcript.
Doesn’t that sound so fancy? So much better than calling it what it really is: a student’s social currency, as Black Mirrorwould say.
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