[ExI] virtual education, was: RE: virtual travel

[William Flynn Wallace]

I think we can narrow the opportunity gap, but the achievement gap will
vary with the abilities and motivation of our children.

-Dave

The far left has a problem - it's all nurture and no nature.  Assuming that
people of every achievement
 level have the same aptitude level is just absurd, and  leads to
educational practices that are equally
 absurd.  "If they are not getting better then we are doing something
wrong."   WRONG.

bill w

On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 11:43 AM Dave Sill via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 11:00 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> This suggests the next question.  As we temporarily suspend our
>> civilization, of course the economy takes a lightning-bolt hit, even as we
>> discover far more efficient new ways to take care of our necessities.
>>
>>
>>
>> How much of our economy is completely dependent on inefficiencies?
>>
>
> Too much. If we don't start correcting that gradually then we're in for
> collapse...if it's even avoidable.
>
> I am already seeing the answer to that in our education system: most of
>> it.
>>
>
> Agreed.
>
> Do let us focus on education as a sub-economy.  We can already see that
>> most of the time spent in physical school is mostly a waste, if we consider
>> education as the primary desired end-state.  Is it?
>>
>
> I think indoctrination is a good part of it.
>
>
>> I am doing a project for our local superintendent: collecting parent-eye
>> view feedback on virtual learning.  The one overwhelming message coming
>> thru loud and clear: the academically rich are getting dramatically richer,
>> the academically otherwise are getting little or nothing.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sal Kahn started his online Academy as a humanitarian effort to close the
>> global academic achievement gap.  The gap he hoped to narrow and bridge
>> with the virtual classroom opens to a yawning chasm.
>>
>
> I think we can narrow the opportunity gap, but the achievement gap will
> vary with the abilities and motivation of our children.
>
> -Dave
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