> 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> _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l < Well if the parents are the problem and the teachers are not the solution then does it fall to the system or the state to fix the problems that are happening? If this is the case then wouldn't technology be better served to a classroom to help maximum efficiency of time for the teacher? More time that a teacher has to teach the better, however I do see the point of the matter that one good teacher that can reach the most disenchanted of students is worth more then oil. Lets be realistic the system is broken there Is no fix on the horizon, is the best course till a fix can be found and actually implemented to try and maximize the current system and its flaws. I have more then one way to fix the system but it would be hard and would take the full generation for the effects to be fully seen. With the way that government works it might last 3yrs till someone new came to power with a different agenda. Nick _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
