Re: School of the future
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 10:54:47AM -, David Howe wrote: at Thursday, February 20, 2003 2:04 AM, Harmon Seaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: The real school of the future won't have classrooms at all, and no teachers as we now know them. Instead there will be workstations with VR helmets and a number of software gurus in the machine tailoring themselves to the individual students needs and personality. The machine will never be tired or grumpy or just having a bad day or serious personality problems like human teachers. They would if I wrote them :) Some days you need a kind, understanding, sympathetic teacher; others, you need the Scary kind :) That's the socio/psych aspect of the teacher/student relationship which has little to do with the actual functions of imparting and learning information. Better to have part of the day spent with a shrink in group counseling sessions inbetween time on machine. Since the info would be learned at least 10x faster, they'd have plenty of time for that, or hands on shop classes, etc. -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com
Re: School of the future
at Thursday, February 20, 2003 2:04 AM, Harmon Seaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: The real school of the future won't have classrooms at all, and no teachers as we now know them. Instead there will be workstations with VR helmets and a number of software gurus in the machine tailoring themselves to the individual students needs and personality. The machine will never be tired or grumpy or just having a bad day or serious personality problems like human teachers. They would if I wrote them :) Some days you need a kind, understanding, sympathetic teacher; others, you need the Scary kind :)
Re: School of the future
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: The real school of the future won't have classrooms at all, and no teachers as we now know them. Instead there will be workstations with VR helmets and a number of software gurus in the machine tailoring themselves to the individual students needs and personality. The machine will never be tired or grumpy or just having a bad day or serious personality problems like human teachers. The software will have the same entrancing allure of good computer games with the addition of sounds and light patterns of our present day mind machines to adjust brain waves to optimal receptivity and retainment, and function in the well-proven pattern of learning by feeding information, testing, feeding more info or reviewing areas as needed, and just as fast, or as slow, as each student requires. There will be no inattentive students, time on the machine will be the highlight of their week, and they'll probably be able to get more actual learning done in 4-5 hours as they now do in a week. And we could have these schools in place today with today's hardware -- all we need is someone to write the software. This reminds me of the mind link hardware I suggested to Tim Leary when he came to Chicago a decade back. Let's keep the classroom, just spread it out over the net. Grumpyness isn't always a bad thing, it seems to create a lot of entertainment on this list anyway :-) Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike
School of the future
Teenager have the same right to self defense that adults do. Why would any sane kid want to go into one of those war zones unarmed? Why would any sane parent allow them to do so? Well, OK. But also don't expect anyone to teach 'em (at least not someone that can possibly find work elsewhere!) Or, having a bullet-proof plexiglass wall between the teacher and 'students' could work. Bullhorns would also broadcast the lesson louder than kids could shout so that those that want to learn, could. Watercannon are also positioned so that the teacher can brake up any fights. (All part of the School of the Future devised by me and some friends.) -TD From: david [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: The burn-off of twenty million useless eaters and minorities Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 21:23:04 -0500 On Tuesday 18 February 2003 20:16, Bill wrote: At 5:53 PM -0800 2/17/03, Tyler Durden wrote: Any kid coming to school with a knife or gun gets thrown out, period. Gee, when I was in high school, I was on the high school rifle team. I still have the varsity letter with the crossed rifles on it. Our ammo was paid for by the US military, who wanted recruits who could shoot. I brought my gun to school at the beginning of the season, and took it home at the end. Teenager have the same right to self defense that adults do. Why would any sane kid want to go into one of those war zones unarmed? Why would any sane parent allow them to do so? David Neilson _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
Re: School of the future
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 03:28:37PM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Or, having a bullet-proof plexiglass wall between the teacher and 'students' could work. Bullhorns would also broadcast the lesson louder than kids could shout so that those that want to learn, could. Watercannon are also positioned so that the teacher can brake up any fights. (All part of the School of the Future devised by me and some friends.) The real school of the future won't have classrooms at all, and no teachers as we now know them. Instead there will be workstations with VR helmets and a number of software gurus in the machine tailoring themselves to the individual students needs and personality. The machine will never be tired or grumpy or just having a bad day or serious personality problems like human teachers. The software will have the same entrancing allure of good computer games with the addition of sounds and light patterns of our present day mind machines to adjust brain waves to optimal receptivity and retainment, and function in the well-proven pattern of learning by feeding information, testing, feeding more info or reviewing areas as needed, and just as fast, or as slow, as each student requires. There will be no inattentive students, time on the machine will be the highlight of their week, and they'll probably be able to get more actual learning done in 4-5 hours as they now do in a week. And we could have these schools in place today with today's hardware -- all we need is someone to write the software. -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com
