Education – The Future?

[Ken-GGF]

Education has been one of the most hotly debated subjects around the world for decades but now there is a new element in the discussion – technology.

The debate has moved on from whether we are correctly educating our children for careers in a changing future to one where we have to question whether the teachers will have a career themselves.

One of the developments is the increasing use of computers in classrooms. In many instances they are there to facilitate what the teacher is teaching. But in some cases they are replacing the teachers. On top of that come online tuition and lessons, often at no cost, which are expanding the number of delivery platforms that students can access even in remote parts of the globe.

Original article: Education The Future Global Government Forum
From: Global Government Forum Government News

 

[Unkotare]

The role of technology in education is hardly a "new element."

 

[Jackson]

I have been shocked to find that students do not have their own books at school. There is one classroom set, no one has a book to take home to study or to do assignments.

My grandson has a thesis book that he pastes "lesson sheets" in to make up for the fact that there is no book! What if there was a student who was no so prudent, would he take care of business every night to do the same to "make" his own book?

The government sends millions of dollars for the schools to have computers and then does not fund for the basics?

Every student should have their own math, science, social studies, reading, etc. book! When I was a student my parents had to pay a fee for using the books each year. Why don't they continue with that? A $5.00 charge "usage fee" for each book and and have the parents pay half of the workbooks.

I really don't know what is more important than the students having their own books.

We should be concerned about education - the PRESENT!

 

[Anathema]

Education does not exist in the US. What we have is long term child care with entertainment.

 

[Jackson]

Education does not exist in the US. What we have is long term child care with entertainment.

It isn't all that bad, but there is so much we could improve upon. I hear about so much wasted time in middle and high school, it boggles the mind!

 

[Anathema]

It isn't all that bad, but there is so much we could improve upon. I hear about so much wasted time in middle and high school, it boggles the mind!

Wasted time. Wasted resources. No discipline. No standards. Total crap beginning to end.

 

[Unkotare]

More and more schools are issuing students ipads in which all their textbooks and important assignments have already been loaded.

 

[Anathema]

More and more schools are issuing students ipads in which all their textbooks and important assignments have already been loaded.

More wasted resources. Resources which are more expensive to replace when the kids destroy them. Resources which are not targeted at core learning but rather at the extraneous crap thst our schools waste time and energy on these days

 

[gipper]

Education does not exist in the US. What we have is long term child care with entertainment.

Along with a large dose of leftist indoctrination.

 

[Unkotare]

More and more schools are issuing students ipads in which all their textbooks and important assignments have already been loaded.

More wasted resources.

Quite the contrary.

 

[lisabella Robert]

Education in Future will be advanced with the help of technology. All over the world,Students will earn digitally.

 

[Anathema]

Education in Future will be advanced with the help of technology. All over the world,Students will earn digitally.

In other words they will learn little to nothing of value, just like they do now.

 

[Unkotare]

Education in Future will be advanced with the help of technology. All over the world,Students will earn digitally.

In other words they will learn little to nothing of value, just like they do now.

Go grab a cup of 'pull the stick out of your ass' Eeyore.

 

[Anathema]

Go grab a cup of 'pull the stick out of your ass' Eeyore.

These kids can't speak, read or write basic English. They can't do simple math. Cursive is a thing of the past. Yet we are mire interested in getting them laptops and other electronic gadgets than in basic core subject material?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The educational system needs to be completely revamped from top to bottom. What we have now is an inter-generational economic suicide pact

 

[Treeshepherd]

There is more opportunity today for self-education. When Abe Lincoln was growing up in a cabin, he got his hands on whatever books he could find.

Today, the resources available to home-schoolers are incredible, both in mail-order print and online.

Today there are accessible resources for people who want to learn to fix their own car, or research a health issue, or learn a language.

But we also see an increase in the realm of artificial intelligence. Soon you'll have a smart toaster and a smart belt and a cash-for-clunkers smart toilet that chemically analyses your turds. You'll just upload every wikipedia factoid and every spoken language to your Asmodeus 7.0 neural grafted microchip. In the long run, I see technology making people more and more stupid, or maybe not stupid but just not very thoughtful.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

There is more opportunity today for self-education. When Abe Lincoln was growing up in a cabin, he got his hands on whatever books he could find.

Today, the resources available to home-schoolers are incredible, both in mail-order print and online.

Today there are accessible resources for people who want to learn to fix their own car, or research a health issue, or learn a language.

But we also see an increase in the realm of artificial intelligence. Soon you'll have a smart toaster and a smart belt and a cash-for-clunkers smart toilet that chemically analyses your turds. You'll just upload every wikipedia factoid and every spoken language to your Asmodeus 7.0 neural grafted microchip. In the long run, I see technology making people more and more stupid, or maybe not stupid but just not very thoughtful.

Education didn't help Abe much if he was a Republican.

 

[Unkotare]

Go grab a cup of 'pull the stick out of your ass' Eeyore.

These kids can't speak, read or write basic English. They can't do simple math.

Which kids?

 

[Unkotare]

Cursive is a thing of the past. Yet we are mire interested in getting them laptops and other electronic gadgets than in basic core subject material?

Cursive is a useless anachronism, and a "gadget" is merely a tool. Keep pulling, you haven't gotten that stick all the way out yet.

 

[Treeshepherd]

Cursive is a thing of the past. Yet we are mire interested in getting them laptops and other electronic gadgets than in basic core subject material?

Cursive is a useless anachronism, and a "gadget" is merely a tool. Keep pulling, you haven't gotten that stick all the way out yet.

Writing in long-hand cursive charges creative centers in the brain. Reading hand-written Civil War letters, you get the sense that even the least educated Americans of the 19th Century had superior vocabulary to today's recipients of Masters Degrees. Their pen strokes approach the art of calligraphy. Today, we type on keyboards (which is a much more abstract process) and speak in technical jargon. Incidentally, the typewriter was invented around the time of the Civil War.

The gadgets we use cause certain areas of our brains to strengthen, and others to wane. In that sense, they are not merely tools.

There was a study a while back asking people to name the colors of the various national flags around the world. One group was given smartphones. The other group had to use memory to come up with the answers. Obviously, the people with the smartphones got more answers correct. They just looked up the answers in wikipedia. And that was the point of the study, that people with smartphones do a search before they even attempt to think. For the group that had no search function, they were forced to drill down into memory.

The brain is a forest. Look at a brain cell under a microscope. It resembles a tiny tree, with root and trunk and canopy. The brain is a forest, and the path to a certain memory is formed when the branches of the trees intertwine to form a sort of Tarzan vine linkage back to the place in the brain where that memory is stored. The more times we return to that memory, the stronger the pathway becomes.

Gadgets are not merely gadgets. They are also things that shape the very brain inside our skulls.