That's the point Taran!!
We need to go to point one before we go to point 2. The 1st thing we should
be thinking about is precisely that -- delivering the curriculum to all the
students - those with or without individual independent access to a [their]
computer; instead of putting the ' cart before the horse'
Errol Hewitt
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At 14:17 23/11/2005 -0600, you wrote:
ehewitt wrote:
> Hi Taran,
> In the midst of it all remains the original matter that the prime
> focus in school is delivery of the curriculum -- I assume from all
> this , or rather the UN, MIT and Negroponte assumes I imagine, that
> the delivery of the curriculum is already available on the Internet.
> The student just "cranks" up the computer and ...Viola!!! QED.
> Errol Hewitt
Well, not necessarily on the internet. But available electronically at
all is a problem. Maybe the first people who should get the technology
and act on it aren't children. Maybe it's the teachers, the writers of
schoolbooks...
In the context of CARICOM, I have often wondered how long it would take
for school book authors to be commissioned to create books available at
no cost on the internet. Sure, T&T has 'free schoolbooks' - but they
cost the government. What if one could reduce the cost and make the
books available to anyone with a machine or access to a computer printer
AND the publisher? That seems a very long way down the road. It also
highlights a point: different parts of the world have different systems
of education, and therefore different needs.
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