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A better idea might be to give the parents vouchers to get them. Funny how Jr. is less likely to LOSE or BREAK something Daddy bought for them.
OOpps I used the V-word again LOL!!1
““If we don’t try to keep up, our kids are going to fall behind,” she said.”
I could read when I was 3.
My mother taught me...with paper and a pencil because iPads didn’t exist in 1964 but *somehow* we managed.
In the 4th grade, the PTA made a video of me reading college level text books to “pimp” the school’s ‘academic record’ to sponsors and donors.
Ha.
Everybody else in my class was reading “Ralph The Motorcycle Mouse”.
[which, while amusing enough, lacked secondary character development]
HOORAAAAYYY!!!!!!!!! A SQUARE FRISBEE!!!!!!!!!
They could get laptops for half the price, that do more.
I don’t think even swordmaker would say that $500 on computers should go to an ipad. Why does a kindergardener really need the fastest processing power? Are 5 year olds going to be doing video editing? Perhaps the Auburn school district might want to try to save $400 out of that $500 by buying a not as good version. Because these are 5 year olds.
http://www.aliexpress.com/product-gs/400241027-free-shipping-high-quality-touch-screen-tablet-PC-android-2-2-wholesalers.html
This is an Android 2.2 tablet for $86. Does pretty much the same stuff as an ipad. Does flash, the ipad? No doubt the ipad is better. But this one is $86. Maybe swordmaker can explain why kindergardeners can’t use the $86 generic android tablet, but must have the $500 ipad.
Gee, how did teachers manage to teach 35 kids in a room with no teacher aides and fancy smancy tech toys? Oh, I know! We were taught to mind the teacher and not disrupt the class or we'd get a spanking from the board of education and meet the same fate when we got home and we seemed to have turned out fine.
Why is it that my 70 year old father could learn and understand calculus with nothing more than a blank piece of paper and a slide ruler, but our kids need calculators to learn basic math?
Geez.
I honestly think we’d be further ahead if we could ban computers until a person graduates from university.
Seriously!
They can’t use the older iPads, preferably donated ones?
We should be doing what India and China are doing, namely, NOT handimg out ipads!
How idiotic. Bring back the one-room schoolhouse. Ban unions. Bar computers. Schools in rural India without running water are outperforming American kids in $10 million high-tech Elementary schools. This technology fetish is just a big distraction from the basics of reading, math and civics.
Like most education initiatives, this is insane. The problem with children and education is that we have stupid and permissive parents and stupid and permissive education officials, unions and government. Giving kindergarten children computers isn’t going to address any sort of need of problem other than give Apple a great big slice of the tax pie.
Consider that most computer use in the job world centers on three basic functions: word processing (typing), some kind of spread sheet and power point presentations. Most people can come up to speed with these things inside of a few months. Instead, we unquestioningly default to the use of more technology as an unchallenged solution to our social and economic ills. Rubbish, I say.
I’m going to start printing bumperstickers that say: ‘My homeschooled kid can still kick your publik skooled kid’s @ss - without a computer!’
Anyone want to bet on it "failing?" For that matter if they have that much money in the "budget" how about REDUCING the budget and lessening the tax bite on the people who pay for these pipe dreams? Out of one person's pocket into another, the idiocy of squandering tax dollars on frivoloties never stops.
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Don't bet the children's education on it.
How does this allow the teachers to work one-on-one with the students?
““It probably would take four teachers to do what the computers can do with one teacher.” “
Correction:
“It probably would take four teachers to do what the computers can do with one lazy a$$ teacher.”
Idiocy marches on.
“We live in a sea of thoughtlessness, informing ourselves to death.” (from a letter to the editor in this morning’s WSJ.)
