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I am a board member of PTA, a public school for children at Malcolm X Primary School, Berkeley, California.
At our last general meeting, our chairman discussed PTA-
The funds generated helped the school.
We help pay for the project-
Sports, drama, music-
This is threatened by national budget cuts. We offer after-school classes.
We buy supplies directly for the teacher.
No one at the meeting talked about the possibility that the school would have a laptop every fourth or fifth grade ---
In his entertainment and messages, Bob Johnstone said that the goal of "don't mind the laptop: the transformation of children, computers and learning" should be achieved in each school district for each child
Last year, the school hardly avoided firing 11 teachers, and the number of classes in the fourth and fifth grades reached 32 per class.
The idea that Malcolm X school students use laptops makes me feel completely whimsical.
I don't live on that planet.
This makes me more eager because I think the photos on the cover of "don't mind the laptop ---
A smiling principal walks in front of the middle class in Australia.
School girls, each carrying a Toshiba laptop, dressed in school uniforms, dressed neatly (
Black shoes, white socks, checkered dress). It is jarring --
This picture seems to be a sci-fi novel, but it was taken more than ten years ago.
Needless to say, children should be able to use computers.
The future of computer will not look back.
If one of Johnston's important papers is correct-
Enough computers to be used correctly are just encouraging innovation and risk.
In the global information economy, the cooperative learning that our children need most ---
We should not be afraid of the future where students always log in.
We should try to do that.
Obstacles to achieving Johnston's vision ---
Funds, maintenance and training-
It is huge, but there are also outstanding pioneers to watch.
Here is the experience of the Melbourne school, Johnston details, the groundbreaking Methodist Women's College.
In last August, Maine was closer to home, providing laptops to every seventh-grade student in the entire state.
Private schools around the world require or require parents to buy laptops for their children so that they can use them at school and at home.
Education software is improving, hardware prices are steadily falling, and a generation of teachers who have grown up with computers are heading to school.
However, from where I sit, the example of Maine in California seems to be less applicable, half
The following is an elite private school for girls.
I can't imagine the parents of Malcolm X who struggled desperately just to pay for after sales
School Program for baby
Let their children sit when they are full of work
Laptop time ---
No matter how attractive the rental arrangement is or how imperfect the insurance and guarantee is.
What's more inflammatory is that there seems to be a real problem for me, if we want to believe in Johnston, whether American politicians and parents even want their children to be provided with computer education.
For Johnstone, every student's laptop will usher in a new era of progressive education: encouraging children to jump out of the shell, explore what they are interested in, and have confidence in their creative potential
But in California, the pressure from high people is to distort teaching to ensure that students perform well in standardized tests.
It's just progress, especially when you're dealing with elementary school students.
My concern I raise is not to criticize Johnston, but to provide some context.
Johnston is a booster, although he is smart and sincere.
"Don't mind the laptop" is an in-depth, comprehensive report in history, and is not afraid to explore the subtleties of its theme.
This is not only a tribute to technological progress, but also an examination of how children learn and how they should learn.
There is no doubt that this is indispensable for anyone interested in computer and educational topics.
But fundamentally, we are optimistic that obstacles will be overcome, which may be a bit wrong.
In my opinion, the future of having a laptop is more likely than every student, the future, those who have the ability to get their children to school in private schools will get the huge benefits of the future of broadband, wired and wireless, while those who can't afford it will be falling behind.
Bob Johnston has always been one of the most active and enthusiastic technical writers in the media field.
Long before the days of wired and dribs and drabs
Com boom, long before I had my PC, I read his column on Far East Economic Review for entertainment.
He wrote an article about the latest developments in LED display technology that attracted me, even if I didn't understand half of what he said.
This enthusiasm, coupled with his extensive technical knowledge, has allowed me to trust him in situations where I tend to have a side purpose.
When the apostles of technological liberation began to preach knowledge about children and computers, spittle soon flew up and the most advanced things soon got out of control.
But it's not always a simple equation for children and computers.
When my child
Currently 5 and 9)
I removed them from the computer, in part because research has shown that spending too much time on the keyboard can even be harmful to very small children.
A developing brain needs to take the time to fight the real world instead of the virtual one.
There is also little evidence that starting to use computers for children at the age of 3 has any particular advantage over children starting at the age of 8.
But I am willing to believe that when the computer is properly integrated into the education of a larger child, it will have a liberating effect.
The comprehensive nature of the Johnston report is convincing.
He tells the story of too many enthusiastic teachers and reviews so many case studies that he can't say what he thinks.
Although sometimes he does sound like an unreconstructed point.
Commer, I tend to believe that the argument he is making now is more credible when everyone else is out of the hype.
Johnston's focus on educational theory and the history of computers in education makes his narrative different from other treatments of the same problem.
Not surprisingly, the idea that children can benefit from computers has become part of computer sciencego.
Among the computing legends that appear as a bit player in mind laptop is Alan Kay, who first conceptualized the laptop, and led the development of the groundbreaking Alto computer at Xerox Park, the professor of programming language logos at MIT, Semour Papert, which was later integrated into Lego's Mindstorm robot system.
To make matters worse, Microsoft and Bill Gates also play important roles here.
The convergence between Gates's charitable instincts and Microsoft's business growth, better than the spread of computers intertwined through historical accounts in education, is a long-term treatment.
Debate in education about how best to teach children, whether they have computers or not.
It is refreshing that for at least a century educators, parents and politicians have been dissatisfied with the state of education in the United States.
Now, it's not new to complain about it in California or elsewhere.
What is really interesting, however, is how the belief that computers inspire creativity, empowerment, and innovation coincides with the repeated criticism that progressive educators have made about courses that used to rely on rote learning, or be accused of turning energetic, curious young people into distant drones.
When I was in fourth grade
The so-called open movement surged in schools in the early 70 s.
I remember a few years when I almost did what I wanted ---
Including a lot of chess and endless reading.
I remember those years with deep affection and I believe I would love it too if I had a laptop to play.
In my opinion, it is intuitive that children will respond to the power and possibilities of computers ---
They will, like many adults.
In their previous ups, excited about the way computers eliminate heavy work and increase productivity.
My daughter had several iMacs in her fourth grade classroom and the teacher used them to help put a class newspaper in.
When computers and printers are at your fingertips in a timely manner, who doesn't feel like they are instant publishers, but again the barrier is to ensure fair access and funding.
Johnstone has repeatedly argued that even in disadvantaged school districts where there is no money, there is a way to put laptops in the hands of children.
Schools can arrange a rental plan, get a break on insurance, set up a rental plan so parents pay only $50 a month.
'We can do it if we want, 'he said.
I want to believe it.
I would also like to believe that, if we are willing to do so, we can provide our schools with adequate funding so that high-quality teachers are not at risk of being fired;
As happened this year in Malcolm X, the orchestra classes for the fourth grade students were not cut because of a budget shortfall;
The school's funds are not distorted with the gradual improvement of test scores, which requires teachers to give up everything to get the best chance to pass multiple examschoice exam.
If there is a place for the federal government to have an impact, that's it.
Not every pot has chicken, but every backpack has a laptop.
Politicians should rack their brains and come up with a cheap educational computer for school use;
They should make insurance and warranty plans;
As a matter of national interest, they should ask the market to serve the future needs of our country.
Instead, they let the market serve themselves.
This means the struggle of public schools, the flourishing of private schools-
Well, it may belong to Australia in the future.