Comments on: The disruption of education: How technology is helping students teach themselves

By: Gloria Inostroza De Celis

Gloria Inostroza De Celis — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:43:28 +0000

Esto es una evidencia que es posible una educación de calidad para todos(as). Gracias.

By: khalilzakari

khalilzakari — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:51:40 +0000

Technology is remarkably emerging as an important component of recent reforms in educational systems world-wide. Macro-implementation decisions have paved the way for the implementation of technology in education and training and instructions about planning for technology have already made their way to so many guidelines and programs. The new technology is continuously being promoted as a quite efficient tool for improving learning and teaching.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:34:31 +0000

There is a new approach in education that proves itself to work the best – learn by playing. So far only CheckiO.org has realized this idea where they teach you how to program by playing an exciting game with motivational and social elements. But hopefully in future we’ll be able to learn anything by playing games. And the kids will be educated with smiles from fun and excitement

By: rkhan

rkhan — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:52:42 +0000

“They dropped opensource Motorola Xoom tablets in two very remote Ethiopian villages where there was no schooling of any kind, no literacy in any language, no existing mobile or internet-connected technology, and no knowledge of English. ”

Source:
http://hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/2012/11/01/teachers-should-change-how-they-teach-students-today-thats-our-job-r

By: Rajen

Rajen — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 08:18:53 +0000

Children often find ways around the government. Find the fall guy.

By: Ellie K

Ellie K — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 03:33:07 +0000

More detail would have been nice. Did the Ethiopian children already know how to read and write in Swahili or Arabic (or whatever is the primary language in the area)? Or did they teach themselves to read English using the tablets, assisted by the learning apps, without prior literacy in any language? Might anyone know more about this?

Pando Daily’s Sarah Lacy says that laptops changed life for the better in Columbia. Hmm… Columbia is a country of extremes, but even 30 years ago, there were students from Columbia, schooled there, that attended and graduated with comp sci and engineering degrees from Stanford and MIT. All of Columbia is not a primitive backwater.

The example of the Pakistani young lady, and her widely (though not so remotely) dispersed classmates, and their experience with the physics class, was great. That is how distance and online learning could be especially helpful, rather than in the USA, where all sorts of resources are readily available.

Notice who saved the day when internet access was cut off to Pakistan by local government (according to the post): A physics professor in Portugal! She was almost certainly taught in one of those educational institutions that the last paragraph of this post so blithely dismissed as moribund and archaic. Physics professors, whether from Portugal or Minnesota, are still very important…as are regulations for universities, and accreditation.

By: Ellie K

Ellie K — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 02:54:57 +0000

Umbrarchist:
You said, “Our educators could have created a National Recommended Reading List long before we had cheap computers. When do they even discuss such a thing today?”

I don’t know if you refer to the U.S.A. or elsewhere, but I can only speak of what I know. Our educators DID create recommended reading lists, with minor variations for demography. They created, and adjusted such lists continuously over the past 100 years, through use of standardized reading curricula in public (and parochial) schools, from middle school “language arts”, to American, English and world literature for 9th to 12th grade students.

16 year old’s still read, discuss and write essays about Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Scarlet Letter”, and “The Odyssey” and George Orwell books and more. I don’t follow your reasoning at all, as to why there is insufficient appropriate material for educational purposes, and I especially don’t understand how “Mysterious-Strange-Weird Index of Sensational Mysteries” etc. that you listed is relevant to this post, which is about how tablet devices and internet usage provided increased access to knowledge to young people in geographically (and technologically) remote areas.

By: jfgoulet

jfgoulet — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:41:39 +0000

Reblogged this on jfgoulet and commented: L'utilisation des nouvelles technologies permettent une modification des méthodes d'apprentissages. Le e-learning rend les jeunes plus autonomes et facilite l'intégration de nouvelles informations.

By: umbrarchist

umbrarchist — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 14:59:11 +0000

Thank You!

By: umbrarchist

umbrarchist — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 14:52:19 +0000

Our educators could have created a National Recommended Reading List long before we had cheap computers. When do they even discuss such a thing today?

Thinking as a Science (1916) by Henry Hazlitt
http://www.scribd.com/doc/104611461/Henry-Hazlitt-Thinking-as-a-Science
http://librivox.org/thinking-as-a-science-by-henry-hazlitt/

Omnilingual (Feb 1957) by H. Beam Piper
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/03/scientific-language-h-beam-pipers-qomnilingualq
http://www.feedbooks.com/book/308/omnilingual
http://librivox.org/omnilingual-by-h-beam-piper/

The Fourth R (1959) by George O. Smith
http://www.digilibraries.com/ebook/118993/The_Fourth_R/

Eight Keys to Eden by Mark Clifton
http://www.mysterious-strange-weird.com/index-sensational-mysteries.html
http://www.digilibraries.com/ebook/105201/Eight_Keys_to_Eden/

There Will Be School Tomorrow, by V. E. Thiessen
http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/11643.pdf