They are working with Common Core, so I assume the goal is to plug in all U.S. students and then the world! (Que evil laughter...)
I suppose this is why I'm not too thrilled with this. It's one thing to volunteer to be part of the program, but quite another to be forced through Common Core to participate. I heard that Common Core has aspects that use tracking of blood pressure and thought that was strange and I couldn't understand how they could use that information to help children with their studies until I read what Knewton is about.
This is the common core standards. I see a lot of posts on the well trained mind board where various posters are under various mistaken impressions about the common core standards. Often the mistake is that they think how one school, district, or person has chosen to implement one part of the standards are part of the standards because often articles and websites will present them as such to try to prove their point. The standards are simply goals, skills, and milestones that are the proposed minimum standards for education. How they are met is up to the individual schools, districts, and States how they want to try to reach these standardized goals.
I am fouling up internet etiquette by stating this instead of asking questions; making statements tends to look like you're trying to shut down the conversation. I originally typed, "I have seen plenty of wingnut threads about the common core standards being something other than a syllabus of minimum standards, but have not seen the blood pressure tracking one yet. Mr. Google is unable to find "common core + blood pressure tracking". I would love to see the source, if you can remember where you heard that from." It's possible it's part of the learning system you linked. It is likely an individual choice somebody used in ther personal implementation of the common core. It's doubtful that it's actually part of the common core, itself. Although I'll admit I've only read large chunks of it and not the whole thing.
