Comments on: Secondary Schools Must Embrace Technology — and Soon

By: j

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:48:45 +0000

Doug – that is how jobs are created and the economy boosted. Just like Aldous Huxley taught us in Brave New World, we must consume to survive!

Sarcasm aside, technology indeed has its place, but without knowing the basics, making connections is that much more difficult. Besides, my understanding of the brain (supported by Google) is that, like any other muscle, if you don’t exercise it through use (to include memory skills), it falls away.

Cheers!

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 04:52:48 +0000

The message from the Education/Health Industrial Complex – you MUST buy more of our stuff whether you need it right now or not.

By: Barry Garelick

Barry Garelick — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:30:34 +0000

“One NY Times article emphasizes the pointlessness of students memorizing facts and figures they can “now answer with their phones.” ”

And I see students in algebra and higher counting on their fingers when adding and subtracting. Calculators and Google have their place, but so does mastery of the basics which many of todays students do not have. It is a significant hindrance in higher math courses, unless those courses become watered down “math appreciation” courses–which doesn’t do much to help students get into STEM majors if that was their goal.

By: mcp_43

mcp_43 — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 00:28:24 +0000

Does this mean that if the internet is not available, students are not expected to know anything?

By: Terry

Terry — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 22:58:35 +0000

I’m always explaining to my K-12 teacher friends that I have much less technology in my college classrooms than they do. At my suburban college some of us still teach in rooms that just consist of a blackboard, or whiteboard if we’re lucky. I still use cursive to write things on the board if I’m in a room without a projection system. I worry that my future students won’t be able to read cursive since it is no longer taught in K-12.