I maintain that everyone should initially learn to read and write in the language or languages they have just learned to speak and to understand. I mean everyone on earth.
This is possible today, but not with current educational directions and learning units. We should remove the emphasis on technology, and create the necessary learning modules. This can be done with highly adaptive tutorial computer-based units, in many languages. I suggest starting with a major experiment with young children soon after they have learned their native languages, involving all literacies, reading, writing, arithmetic, science, and technology. A proposal for the experiment is available. This experiment is only the first step. We then need a detailed plan to go from this beginning to learning for everyone on earth at all ages. It is likely to be an attainable goal, not just in Africa but everywhere. The key is creating all the learning material needed. This must be affordable by individuals and the world, so we need economic evaluation. Solving the problem of learning for all will help solve our other major global problems, including the digital divide. Alfred Bork [EMAIL PROTECTED] Donald Bren School for Information and Computer Science University of California, Irvine _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
