<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Theme of Spike's post about online education: teachers will become dinosaurs. Teachers are not necessary for learning.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">I think there are quite a few assumptions in those words above. I'll probably need help in airing them out. More coffee, please?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 7:41 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_-946076254859845390WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I heard gmail crashed yesterday so this post didn’t go to gmail users. Retry:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">Perhaps one of the biggest lasting technological changes brought about by the shutdown is a forced adoption of online learning. A laptop isn’t necessary: a 300 dollar ChromeBook will do: it has a camera in it for controlled testing, a microphone, a receiver for the broadband available free from the school. The county supplied those, not the state, not the feds. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">Suddenly educating the next generation took a quantum leap downward in cost, because real-time instructors are no longer necessary, even for grading purposes really. Software is proving to be adequate, even if not ideal, for grading written essay-style assignments. It isn’t great at evaluating content, but one might argue that carbon-based teachers are not necessarily any good at that either.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">Plenty of students have discovered how easy it is to arrange an online meeting to get a project done. I myself participated in one, a software project for the local superintendent, using six selected students. It came together quickly and efficiently. We may never go back fully to face to face meetings.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">New content isn’t needed. Look at how much excellent material is available free from Khan Academy. A student can get one hell of a good primary education just by exhausting that material, and every bit of it can be done from home with a minimum of bandwidth. Now everyone on the planet has access to that.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">Covid revolutionized education.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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