Carla Fried's discussion of online life expectancy calculators reminded me of how people in schools might use an online personalized life chances calculator. It would convert educators' generalizations, such as "21st Century Learning," into measurable impacts on individual student's lives.
A student could use the life chances calculator to estimate the value a lesson and its learning criterion has for increasing or decreasing her or his life chances. That is, how do the 50 minutes of class...
