Math assignments graded as they are completed. (I really liked that, as if I did it wrong, I had to go back and do it right, allowing me not to repeat the error). Anatomy experiments done without messy corpses or actual blood. Virtual chemical experiments.
Maybe elementary school isn’t the spot for tech. But college benefited a lot when I went back after 40 years.
I don’t know what to do with AI written essays. Most I’ve seen seem slightly below undergraduate work. Maybe a low C. I guess we could figure they’ll still be able to produce those C level results in the real world the same way they got the grades?
My recently deceased mother had a middle-school computer center named after her. Before she took up computers in her 40s, the local school was forced by a new law to buy computers. The principal “satisfied” that requirement by buying Tandy word processing computers from Radio Shack and ended up sitting in a closet.
Mom educated herself on the subject and took over. Starting as a volunteer, she wrote the grant proposals, supervised the installation of the hardware, personally installed the software, maintained the servers and taught various classes in computer use for more than 40 years. She also established strict-but-fair policies that brooked no messing around with the computers.
Computers have their place and it’s not in a closet.
Our school had a computer. Of course, you had to fill out cards in code zero’s and ones to input anything into it. :-/ Otherwise, the most advance computers we had were scientific calculators.
cdward 8 months ago
I think maybe, with the increasing influence of AI, teachers may start making more use of handwritten and oral reports.
Jhony-Yermo 8 months ago
GOOD POINT.
drivingfuriously Premium Member 8 months ago
All the computers we bought for our kids home schooling was financed by the credit card. Nothing free about credit, the banks get their cut.
zwilnik64 8 months ago
Math assignments graded as they are completed. (I really liked that, as if I did it wrong, I had to go back and do it right, allowing me not to repeat the error). Anatomy experiments done without messy corpses or actual blood. Virtual chemical experiments.
Maybe elementary school isn’t the spot for tech. But college benefited a lot when I went back after 40 years.
I don’t know what to do with AI written essays. Most I’ve seen seem slightly below undergraduate work. Maybe a low C. I guess we could figure they’ll still be able to produce those C level results in the real world the same way they got the grades?
RadioDial Premium Member 8 months ago
.. it’s just another tool, folks..
gammaguy 8 months ago
Do you have a doctor’s prescription for those tablets?
mistercatworks 8 months ago
My recently deceased mother had a middle-school computer center named after her. Before she took up computers in her 40s, the local school was forced by a new law to buy computers. The principal “satisfied” that requirement by buying Tandy word processing computers from Radio Shack and ended up sitting in a closet.
Mom educated herself on the subject and took over. Starting as a volunteer, she wrote the grant proposals, supervised the installation of the hardware, personally installed the software, maintained the servers and taught various classes in computer use for more than 40 years. She also established strict-but-fair policies that brooked no messing around with the computers.
Computers have their place and it’s not in a closet.
GiantShetlandPony 8 months ago
Our school had a computer. Of course, you had to fill out cards in code zero’s and ones to input anything into it. :-/ Otherwise, the most advance computers we had were scientific calculators.