On Oct 10, 2005, at 8:11 PM, Nick Lidster wrote:
Why don't we just snuff the entire debate and put in a thumb scanner
at the
door of the classroom complete with thumb activated image capture of
the
individual whose thumb is being scanned, add to that RFID and video IQ
to
the already growing number of surveillance systems and you now have
full
spectral coverage of the school environment. Lets be honest it would be
somewhat hard to explain why your carrying a severed finger... or
where/how
you lost yours.
Wrong focus. If a classroom is not an environment wherein each student
is individually engaged and encouraged to learn by a teacher — and this
means making a human and individual connection with each child that
would totally obviate the need for RFID, thumb scanners and all the
rest — then it's almost certain that the classroom experience will be a
dismal failure.
Schools are not meant to be day-care facilities and they are not meant
to be maximum-security incarceration institutions. It's pathetic that
communities have let them become that. The solution is not to throw
technology at the problem; it's to get parents AND teachers involved,
together, in the education process as a team. As it is teachers, more
and more, are expected to hold the role of parents, and that's simply
not their job.
--
Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books
<http://books.nightwares.com/>
Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror"
<http://books.nightwares.com/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf>
<http://books.nightwares.com/ockrassa/Storms_on_a_Flat_Placid_Sea.pdf>
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