” 150 teachers and more than 2,200 students slated to receive laptops that will make critical learning possible.
When first proposed by Vick, the $5 million plan called not only for the purchase and use of technology by teachers and students, but a complete rethinking of how education happens “
Maybe they can use those ‘free’ (@ roughly $2100 each) laptops to look up the word - “BOONDOGGLE”...
LOL!
If kids can’t learn from old fashioned BOOKS what makes you think they’ll learn from laptops?
All this is, is anther EXCUSE for kids NOT learning and if they do learn anything it’s slop. Also it RAISES the COST of “learning”. Since when should the GOVERNMENT be buying laptops for kids?
So will they NOW teach them Reading, wRiting and aRithmetic...... or are these computers just for homo-sex instruction?
I’ve taught in a public school where each student had a laptop. Trust me when I say that laptops had no measurable effect on learning.
In 5 years, not once did the school district ever provide any data to support the idea that kids were learning more or better because of laptops.
Apple, the provider of the laptops, was thrilled, though.
I don’t even know how people learned math before they invented the calculator < / sarc >
Sure would like to see a quantified definition of “critical learning” compared to the 3R’s.
I could never figure out why schools would buy Apple computers for the students when the high-90% of industry uses PC-compatible computers. Isn’t the idea supposed to be to get them ready for the working world. This puts them at a disadvantage when they look for a job knowing Apple rather than PC.
I KNOW...I KNOW...the Apple faithful will remind me that Apple is far superior in many aspects to the PC Compatibles (or at least they once were...I’m not as sure of that anymore)
It’s like I always advize kids when they aspire to be good at a sport. I always tell them to play with and handle ONLY a regulation football, basketball or baseball because everytime you play with something other than what you’ll be using in your sport, you stunt your growth in that sport even if it’s only for a few minutes.
Same with computers. I believe that rather than an advantage, this will put them at a disadvantage when they get out into the real world.
When this sort of insanity percolates down to places like Ownesboro, Kentucky, you really have to start to fear for the future of the Republic.
This is how you get MacBook laptops that have cameras used to spy on kids (and their families) at home, as happened recently when they caught a kid eating “Mikes and Ikes,” then accused him of taking drugs.
I feel so stupid for using my own money for stuff.
Soon there will be crack dealers on a corner near you with great deals on laptops....in 3...2...
All that stuff that Socrates taught Plato who then taught Aristotle? Complete crap without an iMac. Just toss all of it on the scrapheap of history.
Laptop in the classroom at the college leve-lots of texting,
reading and watching porn (probably more interesting than some anti-male, anti-white, anti-American, anti-free enterprise lecture by a leftwing moonbat humanities professor).
Laptop in the classroom at the college leve-lots of texting,
reading and watching porn (probably more interesting than some anti-male, anti-white, anti-American, anti-free enterprise lecture by a leftwing moonbat humanities professor).
Hey, it ain’t even slightly hot. It’s mine to start with, paid for 100% with American taxpayer dollars.
1) I'd love to have a definition of what these Marxists consider “critical” learning. Geeze! When I went to school it was just called, “learning”.
2) How on earth did my children, my husband and I, my parents, and other generations manage to learn without personal computers? Amazing! Some of our earlier Americans didn't use very much paper. It was too expensive. They used slates.