[Edu-sig] gimme more computers (rant)

[kirby urner]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 11:17 AM, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> << SNIP >>
>
> But the marketing of the Big Money Firms in IT-industry will pay off some
>> time. Hey, lets burn lots of money for more computers in school - sounds
>> GREAT.
>>
>> Crazy...
>>
>> Christian
>>
>>
>>
> I think many students would be better served if the emphasis were on
> creating for them a safe personal workspace, with plenty of bandwidth to
> the outside world, with opportunities for 2-way interactions (so not just
> receiving broadcast television, as in the "mindless consumer couch potato"
> model of the late 1900s).
>
>
This seemed an interesting thread so I continued it here:

http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2661482

(math-teach is another old haunt of mine)

Kirby

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