I sometimes miss putting on a CD and listening to the whole thing. Not every album is good for that, of course. And I can do that just as easily with any media player. Something about the physical media made me more likely to listen to the whole album, though.
I was a student in a Physics class in the mid-nineties that used connected HP calculators to periodically survey the class to get a quick handle on everybody's understanding of the material. I was a student in another class where the lectures were recorded, and once in a while if the professor was out of town, a TA would roll in a VCR cart, and we'd watch the lecture. It was interesting to watch new technology get adopted with very different approaches and outcomes.
Now we have K-12 classrooms using iClicker and there are open source solutions like https://github.com/qlicker/qlicker. This, to me, is one of the better potential uses of technology: helping educational professionals customize curriculum and pace.
We recently moved to a school district where there has been an investment in developing curriculum. It has been a learning experience for me as a parent to see how this can widen the subjects a student can cover, and the depth they can go into. It's not obvious, nor is it easily measurable, so I fear it is an easy target during budget discussions. Examples include units on it being ok to fail/take risks (I forget if this was 2nd or 3rd grade), using the bee bot (https://www.robot-advance.com/EN/actualite-beebot-educationa...) to teach teamwork and problem solving at a young age, and using Google Slides to create presentations about subjects like the weather.
As a parent of a 3rd grader and 6th grader, I see the differences between the educational approaches for the different ages, how people learn, etc. I'm in agreement with the author of the article that I'm looking forward to see how technology is integrated in such a way that it accelerates/improves education, without removing some of the intangible benefits of collaboration, etc.
I was a student in a Physics class in the mid-nineties that used connected HP calculators to periodically survey the class to get a quick handle on everybody's understanding of the material. I was a student in another class where the lectures were recorded, and once in a while if the professor was out of town, a TA would roll in a VCR cart, and we'd watch the lecture. It was interesting to watch new technology get adopted with very different approaches and outcomes.
Now we have K-12 classrooms using iClicker and there are open source solutions like https://github.com/qlicker/qlicker. This, to me, is one of the better potential uses of technology: helping educational professionals customize curriculum and pace.
We recently moved to a school district where there has been an investment in developing curriculum. It has been a learning experience for me as a parent to see how this can widen the subjects a student can cover, and the depth they can go into. It's not obvious, nor is it easily measurable, so I fear it is an easy target during budget discussions. Examples include units on it being ok to fail/take risks (I forget if this was 2nd or 3rd grade), using the bee bot (https://www.robot-advance.com/EN/actualite-beebot-educationa...) to teach teamwork and problem solving at a young age, and using Google Slides to create presentations about subjects like the weather.
As a parent of a 3rd grader and 6th grader, I see the differences between the educational approaches for the different ages, how people learn, etc. I'm in agreement with the author of the article that I'm looking forward to see how technology is integrated in such a way that it accelerates/improves education, without removing some of the intangible benefits of collaboration, etc.