This site should and would not exist if we are to believe so called professors of education. They, who make really good money teaching (and I have worked for a school district and college district) are so stupid to believe that education is a waste and that computers are now the master race, however there is only one little problem with their belief. It takes humans to design and program computers. The following is taken from a news story about a Professor Sugata Mitra.
Professor says kids no longer need to learn spelling and grammar because of smartphones.
Several skills that every kid once learned in school are going the way of the dodo in a hurry. Diagramming sentences is practically an extinct art, for example. Cursive handwriting and memorized multiplication tables look to be swiftly headed that way.
Apparently, the next thing that kids will no longer need to learn is spelling and grammar.
Sugata Mitra, a professor of educational technology at Newcastle University in northeast England, announced that traditional language rules are out of fashion reports the Daily Mail. Kids don’t need to waste time on those things, see. State-of-the-art computers and mobile phones can make the necessary corrections.
Spelling and grammar are “a bit unnecessary because they are skills that were very essential maybe 100 years ago but they are not right now,” Mitra said. “Firstly, my phone corrects my spelling so I don’t really need to think about it and, secondly, because I often skip grammar and write in a cryptic way.”
The story goes on to say what a great Professor he is and that he has received a million dollars for his studies and experiments. In a related story by another group of so called college professors it was stated that students no longer need to learn long hand writing since a computer can do that for them.
First: As anyone who has gone to college knows, most so called professors are not qualified to teach in public school.
Second: Many hold their students as slaves, knowing that the students spend a lot of money for the class and are at the professor’s mercy for a grade. I had a class where I got A's on the two main test and a B on the term paper and a C out of the class. When I went to him to ask why he said "you did not participate in the discussions as much as I thought you should. A lie of course, but there wasn't anything I could do. Or you have to belong to the "coffee click" and kiss ass to get a good grade. I made the mistake of not taking coffee with him at the breaks. Point being they are not teaching, but racketeering and pushing their own personnel agendas.
Third: This professor and the others seem to think that computers, smart phones, etc. are magic boxes that some God high on a mountain has given us poor lowly humans. I thought people built computers and programmed them. Spell check sometimes has flaws in due to language, but the flaws are human made and are human corrected. Someone who knows how to write, do math, use proper grammar skills and be able to read designed and built and programmed the computers. But as you can tell these jerks are too uneducated to realize that fact of science.
Final point is that as any student of history will tell you, slave masters know that if you allow your slaves to read, write, believe in a God, study science and other skills that they will commit the crime of thinking for themselves. They will begin to believe that they are just as good as the overseers or even smarter. The best way to keep slaves is to kill education.
One of the so called Professor's experiements was the in 1999, Mitra conducted a set of experiments known as the Hole in the Wall experiments. He set up computer kiosks in poor areas of India where kids could play with computers. The goal was to show that kids could learn to use computers and the internet with no formal training—even without knowing English.
The Hole in the Wall experiments moved an Indian diplomat named Vikas Swarup to write a novel called “Q & A” about an impoverished waiter in Mumbai who becomes the biggest quiz show winner in history. The book later became the Oscar-winning movie “Slumdog Millionaire.”
I wonder if this jerk knows that if he is right then why will any college need professors? After all the machines can replace them and no one will care, so on second thought replacing most teachers as well as lawyers and politicians and judges with computers might not be a bad idea as long as they are not the people programming the computer.
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Professor says kids no longer need to learn spelling and grammar because of smartphones
You know what, though? Most kids don't learn that in school, anyway.
I didn't. The last time I remember going over things like prepositional phrases and the proper use of commas was the 5th grade.
...But for those who spend their time on a cellphone, etc - get a job in a business field and all that technology is a bit useless.
I was surprised to find out that they only lightly touch on grammar these days. For how hard it can be to master, as people trying to become authors find out, it's not given enough attention in life.
I didn't. The last time I remember going over things like prepositional phrases and the proper use of commas was the 5th grade.
...But for those who spend their time on a cellphone, etc - get a job in a business field and all that technology is a bit useless.
I was surprised to find out that they only lightly touch on grammar these days. For how hard it can be to master, as people trying to become authors find out, it's not given enough attention in life.