Hi Alejandro, I think the discussion of whether education brings everyone down to the lowest common denominator is a different topic!
I guess my original point, perhaps not well enough explained, was that, according to the study in my local paper here in California, using iPads to replace text books costs about 4 times more than using the hard copy text books. Personally, I can't find any justification for California schools spending that extra money when there's hardly any evidence that using iPads improves the quality of eduction at all, never mind 4-fold. I don't know enough about it to judge whether the problem is hardware, software, good vs bad teachers, lack of teacher training , or any other cause. But I'm not a teacher and I tend to view these things more simplistically than perhaps I should. Pete On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Alejandro Tejada <capellan2...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi all, > > I have read the messages in this thread and please, correct me > if I understand wrong: > > 1) Too many students and teachers are too "inexperienced" (not dumb) > to use the available computer educational tools in their institution. > > 2) Most of the digital educational applications aim to teach using only > the lower (or lowest) skills available to all participants. > > Surely, I am interpreting all this information in the wrong way because > my conclusion is that education (as described here) is effectively dumbing > down > all the participants (teachers and students alike). > > How many of you are aware that you could run Livecode (including all > externals and Quicktime) from a Portable device as a USB pendrive > or Secure Digital Card or even from media as a Rewritable CD or DVD? > > No plugin or installation. Just click and run: > > > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Running-LiveCode-and-Quicktime-as-virtual-applications-td4411011.html#a4430008 > > In this computer lab: > > http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2733273854751.2150939.1344437396&type=3 > the IT manager used Metacard Free Starter Kit to create exams > that students run from a CD. He opened the exam (a stack), take out > the CD and repeat the procedure in each machine. In this way, the exams > only runs in RAM and the students could not copy or save to the > computer. It works fine for him for many years... > > Al > > -- > View this message in context: > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Two-More-Resolutions-On-The-Way-tp4495780p4513669.html > Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > -- Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode