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Computer-based Classrooms.
The computer does the teaching and grading. The teacher becomes a facilitator and classroom monitor. Period. Learning and grading become totally void of any personality.
What's more, students who excel can just excel the hell out of themselves and move along faster than everyone else. The computer program will take them wherever they are capable of going.
We are in the stone age when it comes to education.
And computers don't need excessive salaries, pensions and unions.
I really do love the idea. It's time has come. It solves so many problems. Yes it will create some too, but you can program a computer, you can't program a teacher.
I had seen another story in the news that directly proposed this but can't find it now, so this one will have to do.
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Hey Kid - "stone age of education" That is a perfect description of what's happened to education in America. I heard the Left News bashing "again" the Bush administration Education policies; talking ow it had dummy downed America's education system. Give me a break PLEASE! When you can't fire an unqualified, uneducated and idiot of a Teacher - pray tell - where does the problem lay? Screw policies - how about some (at least minimal) standards for our Teachers and competitive pay for those that are qualified.
ReplyDelete;-] Thanks DeanO.
ReplyDeleteWell, the left bash everything right as a simple matter of standard procedure.
Well, I honestly believe the teachers need to go in the vast majority of cases. There is nothing more qualified than a computer which can be honed to a fine edge in short order.
Honestly, kids who want to learn will do so much better with a self-paced system and those who don't want to learn won't be any worse off. Nothing to lose, everything to gain.
Plus, at least you have the added benefit of removing the teachers politics from the classroom.
And a Lot of the cost.
Our Christian School uses the Abeka program - Which is video education. There is a monitor and a teacher. Our school kids are so far ahead of the Public School system; it's silly. When a kid doesn't want to learn, follow and obey the rules - he's out!
ReplyDeleteDeanO, There ya go. The world needs ditch diggers too.
ReplyDeleteThere are some subjects where this would work.
ReplyDeleteArby, I agree that for the raw factual subjects such as math, science, language it's perfect I think. For subjects like history maybe not so much as a group discussion moderated by a teacher might be considered best.
ReplyDeleteI think it would work much better than the system in place now.
ReplyDeleteYou know they would try to organize a local monitor union too. Even monitors need to pay union dues.
Love it! The computers wouldn't strike, call in sick, or poison the minds of children. They also wouldn't be greedy and cost states and taxpayers fortunes.
ReplyDeleteBunni, Exactamundo !
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