Monday, July 8, 2019

Sydney School Restricts Use of Technology

https://www.smh.com.au/education/major-distraction-school-dumps-ipads-returns-to-paper-textbooks-20190329-p5191r.html


   A company comes up with a device, sells it to school districts trying to be up to date, relevant, and all that. Do away with textbooks, and put everything on line.

   Sounds good, doesn't it?

   Then most of the students use the device to message each other, surf the Internet for shopping, scores, and movies.

    Big surprise! They miss what the teacher said, ask him or her to repeat, and get angry when that doesn't happen all of the time, or when their grades tank.

    Add to the mix teachers being prohibited to use social media in the classroom, and in some places, even on their free time.

    I am retired now from high school teaching, and can say a bit. I volunteered to introduce such devices into the classroom. Partly, it was to prove that a veteran teacher could be "with it". And I used it a lot. But at times I would not.

    Most students cannot handle it. When they get to college, they often find out how much they do not know. Maybe they fail a class, or drop it and have to take it another semester. And if they borrow money....you guess it! Student loan debt! 

   More later!

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