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> - The government on average thought was that it was enough just to drop the computers in the kids' lap. An relevant quote on technology and education [1]: >
by jakelazaroff 7y ago
> - The government on average thought was that it was enough just to drop the computers in the kids' lap.
An relevant quote on technology and education [1]:
> You might have said "What is the role of computers and bicycles in education?" Then I would have said, "Why the bicycles?" and you "Why the computer?"
Efforts like OLPC seem to start from wrong place: presupposing that access to technology will be good for education and then figuring out how to solve that, rather than looking at what educational issues actually exist and determining the problem from there.
[1] http://tech.mit.edu/V105/N16/weisen.16n.html http://tech.mit.edu/V105/N16/weisen.16n.html
- ericol 7y agoI really like that quote, not sure why you left the juicy part out ;) Yeah, I think basically the problem stems from thinking technology is an end instead of a medium; and even for those that do see it as a medium, they are not quite clear how it fits the education environment. In the end, we should first try to focus on fixing education - that, from my point of view, is a process that is utterly broken everywhere - before shoving in there something like technology.