In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today.
In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today.
Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now.
So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can't be controlled.
In terms of how much actual use is made of the networked resources, our school's use of the Internet is comparable to that of a university.
Quite a few, actually, are involved in education. They have had the same experience Hanna and I had: when they started having their own kids, they didn't want them to have a poor educational experience; they wanted them to enjoy school.
Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much.
You can't make someone learn something - you really can't teach someone something - they have to want to learn it. And if they want to learn, they will.
We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy.
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