[Swordmaker]

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[martin_fierro]

"It's an example of a true learning environment, it's challenging, it's relevant, it's collaborative and engaging," he said saying it was everything education should be in a digital age.

"Well, we can't have that." -- Teachers' Union

[BCW]

This is all great - but as the article points out - the student only went so far and stopped. He did not see the significance of his achievement.

I’ve talked to IT teachers who tell me that students in the elementary grades - especially 4th and 5th graders - when doing research - will only view the first 3 Google searches and stop or move on without the desire to sink in the results and refine them...even though this is taught in computer tech classes...

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

How to plug in parents’ credit card numbers into the app store is what they mean by computer education these days.

[chrisser]

"It's not so important that we know that Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492, what's important is what was happening around the time, what impact it had and how did that change society."

I think I used to at least partially share this philosophy. Then one day, I realized that, if you don't know that Columbus discovered America in 1492, then you have to rely on someone else to tell you what's important and what was happening round the time, what impact it had, etc.

If you know the dates of significant events, then you can read about other significant events, and by the dates and locations you get to discover, infer, or decide what was happening around the time, what impact it had, etc. etc.

Then you don't get bamboozled with revisionist historians who make stuff up in order to bolster their agenda.

[Flintlock]

Ya wanna improve education???

Re-institute recess.
NOBODY gets paid more than the teacher. NOBODY!!!!
Real (1950’s) textbooks.
Small (walk-there-from-home) classrooms.
No ‘wired’ ANYTHING.
Teachers get rid of ANY student for misbehavior (as in GONE)!
Bring your lunch from home—REAL FOOD!

It would work, too.

[logi_cal869]

Great. Now we’ve got 2 of the richest organizations on the planet, Gates & Apple, fighting over classrooms.

[Moltke]

Apple's VP of education

How Orwellian. Scary and very telling of what Apple has in store (no pun intended) for society.

[minnesota_bound]

From what I read about Los Angeles schools is that Apple bribed those in charge to get ipads into the classrooms. Same for other areas of the country.