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This, I have a significant problem with. Not a worthwhile tradeoff, in my opinion.

Why the heck not? The students are doing better. That's the ONLY thing that matters. Fire every teacher, even the good ones, if it means that the students are doing better. (For the reading challenged out there, I'm not suggesting that we should fire all the teachers; I'm saying that the teachers' jobs are not anywhere close to sacred -- they are the means to an end, not an end unto themselves).

Wonderful, let's make our education system worse. But hey you get a temporarily leased laptop!!! WOOHOO!!!

How about next time you try reading the article?

Haha! Those poor kids are getting computers instead of teachers. This is really really sad.

Yup, improving results, terribly sad. :rolleyes:

I've been in computers and education nearly my entire life. This is ridiculous. Rail against unions as much as you like, but I'd rather have my children on a dirt floor in front of a teacher with only a slate blackboard and chalk

This, ladies and gentleman, is the reason the US is struggling. Clinging to antiquated ways of doing things, just because that's the way it's always been done. WHAT WE'RE DOING ISN'T WORKING.

What significantly better results? Larger class sizes and fewer teachers have always had a negative impact on education. Human interaction is key.

jW

Always, except for the stunningly positive results here. But, you know, other than that, you're right :rolleyes:

Those MBA are totally worth hurting 65 families in such a terrible economic climate. As an added bonus, they get larger classrooms. Win win

Cry me a river. If the teachers were any good at their job, they wouldn't be getting laid off. It's benefitting HUNDREDS of families from the improved education the children are receiving. Once again: the teachers are irrelevant. They're there strictly to SERVE THE CHILDREN. If the students' needs are best served without the teachers, then so be it.

I'm sorry - i love tech, and have all the Apple toys - but I would fight tooth and nail against dumping teachers and raising class sizes in order to buy computers...

How about you read the rest of the article -- the part where the students are doing much better...

Bad trade. We now have 67 new Apple haters in the world.

And hundreds of new Apple lovers, jokester.

Yes I would. I'm a parent of two kids and I know there's a lot more to success than statistics. The states are being taken here by many as proof that it's better. Stats don't always show the whole story folks.

Enlighten us.

If you want teachers to be like everyone else that's great. The marking I just did whilst I'm on holiday, well I won't do that. The students that ask for help after school, I won't do that. In fact anything outside of my contract won't be done. Any out of hours trip or optional stuff will be gone. i'm happy with that.

You're deluded if you think being a teacher gives you exclusive claims to this type of work. It's a rare job indeed these days where you're NOT expected to work outside of normal "office hours".
 
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Mal said:
The Mooresville Graded School District paid for the initiative by eliminating 65 jobs, including 37 teaching positions, and accepting larger class sizes.

This, I have a significant problem with. Not a worthwhile tradeoff, in my opinion.

jW

Children getting a superior education is not a good trade off for some people losing their jobs? I disagree strongly. The education of the children should trump anything else.

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nwcs said:
The educational system's troubles won't be cured with technology. They won't be cured with hiring/firing teachers. They are only cured by parents who care and who insist that their children put in hard work to learn. All the money in the world can't eliminate the one barrier to actual learning: hard work.

If a computer supports hard work, great. If it doesn't, it should be ignored.

If you read the article you will see how and why it works and his it does get everyone working harder.

The brighter kids are able to advance quickly and not be stuck waiting for others thus ending up bored and not challenged.

Slower kids can work slower without any stigma of embarrassment

From the article it is clear what they are doing is overcoming multiple major obstacles that have always impeded traditional teaching methods.

Read the article it is good stuff. Some kids partake in discussion in chat rooms because they feel more socially comfortable and with that actually build up self esteem and confidence to then discuss in person as well. They are overcoming many roadblocks that seriously prevented many students from being able to learn. It goes beyond just working hard.
 
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ossifer said:
I've been in computers and education nearly my entire life. This is ridiculous. Rail against unions as much as you like, but I'd rather have my children on a dirt floor in front of a teacher with only a slate blackboard and chalk, if it means more teachers and more interaction between teachers and children.

Computers replacing teachers has been a stupid idea for decades that has never shown truly sustained results.

Lol wut

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toddybody said:
Those MBA are totally worth hurting 65 families in such a terrible economic climate. As an added bonus, they get larger classrooms. Win win


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And much better educated children which is supposed to be the only goal. Funny people are upset with them doing what they are supposed to do. If firing every teacher in the country led to all our children getting significantly better educations I would support it 100%.

That is why Steve is right about the unions. Teacher unions are about protecting jobs not educating children. Again the only goal should be the best education for the kids. If teachers lose jobs in that process great, because the education of the children is way more important.

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Anaemik said:
Since when was a "hanging wall map" an "antiquated teaching material"? Having a classroom with an academic atmosphere can only be a good thing, and adorning the walls with things such as maps is a really good way of creating that atmosphere.

Also, firing teachers so kids can have laptops? No. Bigger class sizes with each kid having a computer that they can be goofing around on instead of paying attention to the (now more thinly spread) teacher hardly sounds like a recipe for academic excellence to me.

This whole drive to make education less about personal interaction and more about computers just sounds plain bad to me. While computers in and of themselves are no doubt a good thing, they are no substitute for direct human access and influence, especially during a child's formative years.

It seems most of you complaining about this did not read the article. In fact I am sure of it.
 
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1 Million a year! that is freaking crazy!

They never really tell you what is going on anyways. And the program always fails.

What are they using for the back end?
Do they have a Iron Port to stop kids from screwing off? Or using crappy State Filtering?
They only tell you what you want to hear. Work IT in a school for awhile and find out the truth.
 
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Peace said:
You have got to be kidding, I am guessing you are a teacher maybe, you would sacrifice education and longer term benefits for short term gains. Typical problem with our society, we are too short sighted...:confused:

We don't know what the "long term benefits" are yet since this concept is new.

There may be long term deficiencies in social interaction.

If you choose to read the article at some point you will see some interesting positive side effects in regards to socialization
 
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Peace said:
Originally Posted by Rhymecrafter
You have got to be kidding, I am guessing you are a teacher maybe, you would sacrifice education and longer term benefits for short term gains. Typical problem with our society, we are too short sighted...




Agreed, long term results will be more apparent down the road, but the obvious implications here are of a longer term benefit. I have to say, I can't see Social Interraction as an issue, they are not taking teacher interraction away, just modifying it.

Mind you I have to say, we have sure hit a note here that everybody has an opinion on... :eek:

If this leads to fewer teachers down the road it most certainly will remove some student/teacher interaction.

People need to read the article
Traditional teaching has very little student teacher interaction. It is almost all one way as teachers try to deal with an entire class at once.

The way this is set up the teacher can work with individuals and small groups in a much more hands on manner. Even with larger class sizes the kids get more quality interaction with teachers.
 
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mgsdteacher said:
I am a teacher in MGSD. I have been here since 2003 and I am "digital native" but I have taught here both before and after the laptops.

I wanted to address a few things.

First, North Carolina does not have teacher unions. There are teacher unions, however we are a right to work state and so they have little power and/or influence. Fewer than half of our teachers I would guess are members of the NCAE (I am not).

Yes, we have had layoffs. No, they were not directly correlated to the purchase of the laptops. Like every school district in the country, the recession led to a drop in sales tax, therefore our state funding decreased, there our budgets were cut by huge amounts. We have cut back on office supplies, textbooks by not purchasing them, etc. Salaries are the largest part of our budget and I would encourage everyone to view our annual report which details our budget. Many of the positions lost were retirements or people leaving the district of their own volition and whose positions were simply eliminated as opposed to being filled. In addition to our own technology budget, we have a substantial grant from a large national employer who has headquarters in our town.

Yes class sizes have grown. However our administrators have done an outstanding job at raising the class sizes of electives and honor level classes where students are better able to absorb the changes. Our lowest performing students have the smallest class sizes.

Our test scores are based on the accountability tests written and administered by the state of North Carolina. We use our own internal data as formative assessments at regular intervals to prepare for those state tests. The data reflected in the article comes solely from the state and is easily accessible on ncpublicschools.org (click on School Report Cards). It is not a test we made up to make ourselves look good.

In terms of the interaction - one thing not mentioned in the article is that at the same time we did the 1:1 conversion we also adopted a program called Capturing Kids Hearts. It involves making a personal connection with a student because until you capture their heart, you can't capture their mind. We all develop social contracts with our students, we greet them at the door every day, we share Good News on a regular basis, and truly get to know our students and let them know we care about them. Many of our students have found this to be a safe, comforting environment because the interaction is so much greater. Technology has freed up some of our back-end time so we can take more time to get to know kids, work with them more closely, target their weak areas sooner and get them the help they need. I feel I know my students better and interact with them FAR more than I did previously. My kids email me all the time with questions, when they are at home working on homework, they know they can email or instant message me on Angel, and they get the help sooner and faster.

Additionally, the things I ask my students to do in class allow me to truly see their creativity shine, and demonstrate their true gifts, and their actual learning, so I learn to see the student behind the textbook so to speak. Again, the things they can do with the technology allow me to see a richer, more complex person that answers on a worksheet. It allows me to have a personal insight into my students' lives. I absolutely can confirm that I have touched more lives as a result of this technology being available. Not just the bright, smart kids that everyone loves to work with - also those who feel they are worthless, have no parent support, have no one to give them kind or supporting words, or show no interest in their school lives or work.

In terms of what we teach - it varies from subject to subject however in my department we are focused on proficiency-based learning where students demonstrate through their blogs, digital portfolios and performance assessments what they have learned. They all perform at different levels, and they have different assignments based on their abilities. We use a lot of project-based learning where students are involved in collaborative problem solving of real-world problems. We are nurturing higher level thinking skills and empowering kids to reflect, push themselves, and think creatively. I would encourage to watch some video of our teachers in action as we were recently profiled at Digital Learning Day. You can find those videos here: http://www.digitallearningday.org/DLD2012
We are profiled in the leadership and instructional strategies section.

I am honored and blessed to work in such a district where we have made a priority of reaching every child, every day and I appreciate the opportunity to share my insights with all of you.

Let me add to that I left a highly lucrative career to take a 50%+ pay cut to become a teacher. (I am still not yet to the salary I was making in 2002 when I became a teacher). There are no bonuses, no merit raises, no title upgrades or promotions. But my students who tell me I have made a difference in their lives (and one class made a surprise website featuring video tutorials of the impact I had made on them - purely unsolicited and unexpected) - that is why I do what I do.

Wow. Thanks for sharing. When I read the article I was immediately impressed. Reading your first hand experience, that much more so.

It clearly sounds like you guys are using the technology to afford a more fruitful teaching experience for all the students.

Kudos!
 
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Fast Shadow said:
What an excellent investment. Not the computers, $ well spent on children.

Except for the part where they fired 37 teachers and increased class sizes.

Any teacher who would not sacrifice their entire teaching career in exchange for 1000 kids getting a superior education should never be a teacher.
 
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JoeG4 said:
All of the tools in the world will be of no use unless the teachers & administration know how to use them. Part of the reason why computers have taken so long to really catch on in education is just that.

If a school goes from full "old fashioned" to fully technology, the costs are going to be astronomical. Not only are you talking about equipping every student with a computer (and in a school of 1500 students that's $300,000 a year just for the laptops on lease [at $200 a month]).

What about the software? I'd bet on site licensing for the programs (including learning media) costing almost as much, if not more than the computers. Then there's IT costs (the initial ones will be sky high, and maintenance will likely also be sky high).

So in the end, it may not be a cost-effective approach; The key is STILL in how the technology is used. If the teachers aren't effective in providing a good environment for the students to learn (and the students aren't cooperating), all the tech in the world won't do anything.

If you read the article you would see the software was like 100k.

As for the computers $250 a year out of the 7200 budgeted per child, which puts them at almost the bottom of spending in the state.

It is amazing in a discussion about education most of the people talking negatively could not even bother to read the actual article.

I bet you many of those kids from that district will grow up and be the kind of person who reads the article.
 
I'll quote the article for you

Eliminating 37 teachers yet the graduation rate and tests scores increased and attendance is up while dropouts are down....terrible I say!

Considering there was such a "massive" restructure, It would be worth looking into more, on WHY the numbers are looking more impressive.

You can't simply put it down to having a macbook air, because you can do anything on an air, with a windows pc/laptop, for the most part.


macbook air = automatically better learning? erm no, different training programs/subjects plus a restructure of classes, methods of teaching etc could all be put as a factor, more so than a shiny new laptop.

which is obviously what has happened, or am I getting things wrong?

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Any teacher who would not sacrifice their entire teaching career in exchange for 1000 kids getting a superior education should never be a teacher.

Teachers are ************** human as well you know? they have families to feed, struggles in terms of money etc

What makes you think they are any different from you and i? that they should be willing to get fired? Get off your high horse.
 
That's not the purpose of the educational system, but that's sort of what's been happening. And don't assume there's an increasing number of teachers; there isn't. But there has been a steadily increasing number of administrators, many of whom are making six figure salaries while the teachers doing the work make low five-figure salaries. State higher education in the U.S. is following a top-heavy business model right now, and it's putting the entire system in peril.

In any business there are slackers. Don't assume that teachers are the culprits in education. Many are overworked to the breaking point, have to struggle with oversized classes and, because administrators aren't teachers, often have serious curricular concerns that are ignored. Many have no choice but to teach under conditions that are not conducive to learning, in a climate that increasingly views the student as a customer (who is always right).

If it weren't for unions fighting to preserve a voice for teachers, the educational system in this country would have crashed and burned long ago, a victim of the Wall Street mentality that currently dominates U.S. culture. It amazes me how much the U.S. education landscape has changed since the 1950s. If it keeps heading in that direction, no amount of technology will save it.


I would hand over the entire system to a man like Steve Jobs in a heartbeat. My guess is that a million baby boomers would lose their jobs the next day, and a million and a half talented and energized young people would replace them the day after that...at half the cost. We'd be the best educated society in history a year or two later. :cool:

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Teachers are ************** human as well you know? they have families to feed, struggles in terms of money etc

What makes you think they are any different from you and i? that they should be willing to get fired? Get off your high horse.

As long as we're clear that they are in it to keep their job/benefits at whatever the cost. Horse dismounted.
 
@Maelstromr

No response to my post?

I can explain it to you if you need some help.

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One of the most important things to note in the responses in this thread is that hardly anyone has even questioned if the gains are real, if the gains are significant or if the MBA program CAUSED the gains.
 
And hundreds of new Apple lovers, jokester
you're nuts.

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People need to read the article
Traditional teaching has very little student teacher interaction. It is almost all one way as teachers try to deal with an entire class at once.

The way this is set up the teacher can work with individuals and small groups in a much more hands on manner. Even with larger class sizes the kids get more quality interaction with teachers.

There is loads of group stuff in schools without technology.
 
@Maelstromr

No response to my post?

I can explain it to you if you need some help.

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One of the most important things to note in the responses in this thread is that hardly anyone has even questioned if the gains are real, if the gains are significant or if the MBA program CAUSED the gains.

You mean the generic list of legitimate and semi-legitimate possible issues with the statistics in the article that was not addressed to me or in reply to anything I said? Um, ok...

Maybe something else caused the gains, but my sense is that a credible news source discussed the changes as a result of the macbook program, and I have seen no credible challenge that the teachers were otherwise responsible. Absolutely nothing I have said about unions or agreeing with Steve Jobs's sentiments about them changes, EVEN IF these computers did not do a single thing in North Carolina.
 
Steve has it right. Now after the computers come in, purge the Teachers Union, rehire all the teachers as independent contractors with a pay scale based on parental and supervisor feedback and not seniority. Also have the curriculum based on parental and industry survey and not academics.

I don't think Steve knew any more than the teachers in the US' parochial education system. There's very little difference between a text book and an ebook no matter 'interactive' it might be - they are both based on the fallacy that teaching is the transfer of information, which further confuses education with training.

Most text books contain errors. It is ultimately up to teachers to embody knowledge and communicate and discuss teaching points, encourage pupils to ask questions, to get them to investigate and become independent learners and so on. The model of teaching by a blackboard with a text book, which Steve's idea does not fundamentally undo (the book just becomes an iPad - how radical?) is hopelessly out of date. Steve does't get 'teaching' as it's understood in vastly more successful education systems around the world.

In the end, the US needs to attract bright graduates into the profession and to do that they will have to be better paid than current teachers, no matter how damaging 'union rules' are said to be. To drive down pay will only destroy another strand of the middle class and do nothing to bring new blood and ideas into the profession. Likewise, the attitude expressed seems to disregard the notion teaching is a profession at all, something I've heard before in the US and will only further decrease the breadth and quality of education in the US.

New technology always sounds like a winner when it comes to changing education systems, but you have to consider broader considerations of how they are used or why they are used. IT simulations say of batteries or circuits are no replacement for letting children use the real thing. Learning is ostensibly real-world and experiential and based on relationships between people. iDevices, no matter how nice, are not a panacea in and of themselves.

Lastly, the misconceptions in your comment pretty much disprove why parents know anything more about education, or for that matter industrialists like Jobs. Education means equipping children with a broad range of skills, values and knowledge for life. Industry survey can only lead to a narrow curriculum - something Jobs was said to be opposed (he argued for the liberal arts). Jobs himself was a product of the counter culture. Schooling run by industry would not help the US create the odd-ball geniuses Apple says it admires (think different). Academia is the product of education too and the suspicion of academics pretty much lays bare the anti-intellectualism present in some debates in your country. In the end, education helps to develop intellect and anti-academia is really a form of anti-education (who likes the smart guy?).
 
To drive down pay will only destroy another strand of the middle class and do nothing to bring new blood and ideas into the profession.

Though I disagree with the points you made, I appreciate the thoughtful post.

The excerpt above shows one of the most galling parts of this disagreement. Teaching positions SHOULD NOT BE VIEWED as a social crutch to create a profession so some people can live in the "middle class." Teaching should be about teaching CHILDREN and building society. I challenge unions and their defenders for exactly this reason - they think our taxes exist to provide them with a living. I think they exist to provide our society with an education.
 
Though I disagree with the points you made, I appreciate the thoughtful post.

The excerpt above shows one of the most galling parts of this disagreement. Teaching positions SHOULD NOT BE VIEWED as a social crutch to create a profession so some people can live in the "middle class." Teaching should be about teaching CHILDREN and building society. I challenge unions and their defenders for exactly this reason - they think our taxes exist to provide them with a living. I think they exist to provide our society with an education.

I think he means that poorer pay will attract even worse university graduates to the profession, ensuring that children will be undereducated and have less of an ability to claw their way into the middle class when they are adults.

A good teacher is very important.
 
This, I have a significant problem with. Not a worthwhile tradeoff, in my opinion.

Agreed. I'm not sure that increasing class size etc is the way to go. I think that a reshuffling of how classes are handled, especially on the high school level is more useful. Especially if we are ever going to teach kids to actually think and not just spew out random facts. Smaller classes where all the kids can actually get a turn to speak are better for discussion.

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Wow, Steve was amazing- he knew everything there is to know about education from running a computer company where as I took 4 years to train as a teacher.

In another country where you likely know zero about the issuse in the American education system. Like how many schools teach to the standardized tests even to the point of cheating all for the funds that high scores get. Where dropout rates are huge in many areas and some 16 year olds can't read or do math above the 3rd grade level but are trying to get jobs.

So how about you drop the snide comments about how you are an expert and Steve couldn't possibly be. Especially since training for 4 years means little if you just started actually teaching. At least Steve would have had the potential of getting his info from experienced teachers who not only trained for 4 years but taught for a few times over that, in the system he was trying to improve.

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Those MBA are totally worth hurting 65 families in such a terrible economic climate.

who says they were hurt. For all we know no one was actually laid off but in fact they just didn't fill 65 emptied positions. Or they shifted those folks to the k-3 level schools etc.
 
I think he means that poorer pay will attract even worse university graduates to the profession, ensuring that children will be undereducated and have less of an ability to claw their way into the middle class when they are adults.

A good teacher is very important.

If the point is simply that we need to pay good teachers more to encourage better supply of talent into the system, you'll get no disagreement with me.

However, as I have said before, the American system not only discourages this, it effectively makes it impossible. You can. not. fire. incompetent teachers, and you can. not. replace. old and ineffective people with young, motivated talented people. To get here, you first need to destroy/marginalize/majorly alter the union situation. Before that, no amount of money will change it.
 
If this is what it takes to purge the system of poor and/or apathetic teachers, then so be it.

Now if we can figure out how to deal with poor and/or apathetic parents, then more kids might just have a chance.

Interesting that folks down ranked you because you raise a couple of good points. How do we know that the folks that might have been laid off were actually great or even just good teachers. We don't. Perhaps they were total crap.

And yes in many areas parents are totally uninvolved with their kids. I know when I was in high school I worked at the local library after school shelving books and tons of kids were there all afternoon hanging out, looking at the Joy of Sex, trying to look up porn on the computers. I heard my boss once tell a parent that they were not babysitters and it was his job to control his kid (who was being banned from the library for breaking the rules and sneaking in food). makes you wonder
 
Computers replacing teachers has been a stupid idea for decades that has never shown truly sustained results.

Just shoving a computer in a classroom of course won't. But it doesn't equal that it is impossible to have tools created for use on computers or even tablets that will work. Especially when used by teachers that don't come off as scared of tech.

My little brothers' science teacher, for example, bought an Apple TV to use in his classroom just to mirror his own iPad with some of the apps like the Solar System. The kids were apparently more attentive to the moving models (these are 4th graders) etc. This teacher is not opposed to showing the Magic School Bus etc if it shows the kids the information in a way that makes more sense than a 2d diagram in a book and they will pay attention.

The school is talking about launching an iPad test this year with the 4th and 5th grade classes (it's a K-5 school) and that app is probably on the list. Along with several similar ones. Yes some teachers are against it but most of them, no shock, are older and less tech savvy. They may find themselves being reassigned to the younger grades that won't be part of the test and eventually in a position to either accept that this isn't the 1980s and learn the tools and use them or retire and be replaced by younger teachers that aren't technophobes.

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That may or may not be true but removing interaction between humans is a bad idea.

Who says that you are removing interaction at all. You can have it but in different ways
 
Kids today are different that in the past. Technology has been a part of their lives since birth. It's no wonder most of them are bored in schools using 19-20th century teaching methods.

This nails it. I have to deal with this is my job. Movie studio and network heads are stuck in the past. They just don't get that downloads are the growth place, not disks. By refusing to embrace the future they are actually encouraging torrents etc.

Teaching has to make the same change in view. Like it or not, kids are around tech from birth. Instead of fighting it, embrace it. Change how you teach to work with tech and open up new ways of interacting with the information and each other. Imagine, for example, using a whiteboard program that allows kids to ask questions from their seats without fear of being laughed out for asking a stupid question. Removing that fear means kids might actually ask where they didn't before. Imagine a language class where kids can talk to native speakers via Skype, FaceTime etc. and so on. These things can be more useful than old methods and certainly more exciting for the kids. There's nothing wrong with having a little fun while you learn
 
You mean the generic list of legitimate and semi-legitimate possible issues with the statistics in the article that was not addressed to me or in reply to anything I said? Um, ok...

Maybe something else caused the gains, but my sense is that a credible news source discussed the changes as a result of the macbook program, and I have seen no credible challenge that the teachers were otherwise responsible. Absolutely nothing I have said about unions or agreeing with Steve Jobs's sentiments about them changes, EVEN IF these computers did not do a single thing in North Carolina.

Quite obviously you ignored every item in my post.

How is the news source credible when the chairman and CEO of the news source is actively seeking to profiteer from his own "news".

How come the whole state had THE SAME INCREASES as MGSD without MBA?

So basically you have an opinion that you don't want to research, analyze or face challenges.

WHAT RESEARCH DO YOU HAVE TO BASE ANY OF YOUR OPINIONS. YOU OFFER NOTHING TO SUPPORT YOUR REGURGITATED EDUCATION PROFITEERING DRIVEL!

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This nails it. I have to deal with this is my job. Movie studio and network heads are stuck in the past. They just don't get that downloads are the growth place, not disks. By refusing to embrace the future they are actually encouraging torrents etc.

Teaching has to make the same change in view. Like it or not, kids are around tech from birth. Instead of fighting it, embrace it. Change how you teach to work with tech and open up new ways of interacting with the information and each other. Imagine, for example, using a whiteboard program that allows kids to ask questions from their seats without fear of being laughed out for asking a stupid question. Removing that fear means kids might actually ask where they didn't before. Imagine a language class where kids can talk to native speakers via Skype, FaceTime etc. and so on. These things can be more useful than old methods and certainly more exciting for the kids. There's nothing wrong with having a little fun while you learn

It sounds like something we have heard before:

Thomas Edison was a brainy fellow. In 1913, the future father of talking movies declared that “books will soon be obsolete in the schools.” He added a prophecy that would fit just fine in many 21st-century mouths: “Our school system will be completely changed in the next 10 years.”

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2005/10/26/09berger.h25.html

Real research is needed before we jump into giving education to the profiteers.
 
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