Public Schools Supply Free Laptops . . . Who Needs Teachers?

by ~ The Rebel ~ Posted 2012/05/04 15:01:47

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Public high schools in Maine are buying laptops for students.

By buying laptops for students, the school system is saying this.

Students cannot get a suitable education inside the fences of our schools. They need materials from outside the fences. These materials are close to unlimited. They keep multiplying. They are mostly free. Everything a student needs to get a first-rate education he can get on a laptop computer. So, the chief functions of public education are these: (1) providing tax-funded babysitting; (2) hiring mediocre teachers, which is all any district can afford (Pareto’s 20-80 law); (3) letting teachers recommend Websites to students; (4) Letting smart students teach themselves; (5) letting the best students teach each other by way of the Websites they find.

Any school district that fails to imitate Maine will be seen by educators as technologically backward. On the other hand, any school district that imitates Maine will expose itself to the parents as irrelevant academically. The schools then become centers for training athletes, low-cost brothels for teenagers, and drug emporiums.

sglmom 2012/05/14 04:51:51

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There's a place for Technology in the Classroom ..
but there's also a tipping point where that irresponsible use of Tech is overboard and not going to help either ..
with too many now texting, playing games, goofing off and not even getting basic skills to survive in even the simplest of jobs (and cash registers now even tell you the change to make or issue the change too) ..
This situation .. is way past the point where it should already have been reined in .. and teachers/parents/students be responsible for PUTTING FORTH EFFORT to gain needed basic survival and employment skills.

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Muskoka 2012/05/05 18:08:52

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Children do not learn on their own. They need instructors.

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♒ßεllεchεvεllε®♒ 2012/05/04 17:29:58

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Don't think I'd be too happy living in Maine. To each state their own, I suppose.

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sockpuppet 2012/05/04 16:04:28

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That's how it works... throw enough money at any problem, and it'll go away. They'd rather do that than return to the bare-bones basics, because that would be admitting that they've been wrong all these years. Worse still, they'd have to admit that the Conservatives were RIGHT. Can't have that!

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Syl 2012/05/04 15:45:10

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Trust me, you still need teachers. One of my trainee schools also have laptops for everyone, but without the teacher, they'd just play games all day.

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