January 18, 2008
I guess this is the reality in the class room.
Alan Moir
Why do you need the teachers to teach the kids to learn how to use computers? Why cannot the kids help one another. Why cannot they teach themselves through play and experiment? Surely the days of rote learning have gone now the conservatives have been banished from power everywhere. What is needed by the school is high speed broadband and plenty of download capacity.
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You don't need teachers to teach kids anything to do with electronics. Rather, it works the other way around.
In my limited experience the two main problems are that most teachers and quite a few students don't cope with the inversion of power, and there are still quite a few teachers who are afraid that the kids will press the wrong button and something horrible will happen - a screen full of porn or the thing might explode. They limit experimentation to the point where kids just get frustrated.
Buddies and mentors work really well though, where senior students work with the littlies. It's also an effective way of dealing with bullying.