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| Thread ID: 124176 | 2012-04-11 00:51:00 | One Laptop Per Child - failure in Peru. | decibel (11645) | PC World Chat |
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| 1269315 | 2012-04-11 00:51:00 | Very interesting comment HERE (www.itwire.com) I remember some local schools wanting their pupils to have an iPad /tablet of some sort. |
decibel (11645) | ||
| 1269316 | 2012-04-11 02:06:00 | Very interesting comment HERE (www.itwire.com) I remember some local schools wanting their pupils to have an iPad /tablet of some sort. Wanting more like insisting |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1269317 | 2012-04-11 04:37:00 | It found that there was no benefit to the children in learning at all. There was a marginal benefit in cognitive skills. But when it came to improving their reading or the amount of reading, the project drew a blank - despite having loaded 200 e-books on each laptop. The study also found that there was no increase in attendance after the project began. The only positive measurable statistic was that the amount of time that the children spent using computers increased. According to the conservative weekly news magazine, The Economist, which reported the study under the heading Error Message, the Peruvian education ministry announced last month that only 13 per cent of seven-year-olds had reached the required level in maths. When it came to reading, only 30 per cent were up to the standard required. Games? FAcebook? Warez? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1269318 | 2012-04-11 08:12:00 | I don't reckon computers should be used by students in primary schools. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1269319 | 2012-04-11 08:17:00 | I don't reckon computers should be used by students in primary schools. Having a computer lesson once a week or something is probably OK. But certainly don't give every single kid an iPad, or anything for that matter! I doubt any of them should get anything like that until maybe the last 2 years of High School. Before that, none of them really need it, and all it will do is create a distraction. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1269320 | 2012-04-11 08:23:00 | Having a computer lesson once a week or something is probably OK. But certainly don't give every single kid an iPad, or anything for that matter! I doubt any of them should get anything like that until maybe the last 2 years of High School. Before that, none of them really need it, and all it will do is create a distraction. In my view they should be teaching the basics at primary school and don't need PC's to do that. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1269321 | 2012-04-11 08:33:00 | Oh, I agree with that. We used them sometimes in my primary school but not as a substitute for a real lesson or anything. It was more about learning how to use a computer, and learning about them and such. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1269322 | 2012-04-11 08:49:00 | In my view they should be teaching the basics at primary school and don't need PC's to do that. I totally agree. Without those basics all else becomes irrelevant. |
Marnie (4574) | ||
| 1269323 | 2012-04-11 09:43:00 | We didn't use them in my primary school, there were less than half a dozen computers in the world. ;) | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1269324 | 2012-04-11 10:58:00 | We didn't use them in my primary school, there were less than half a dozen computers in the world. ;) And now look at you! You run a Linux machine!!! :D | johcar (6283) | ||
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