Comments on: Laptops and textbooks: do the math http://www.goldenswamp.com/2006/07/13/laptops-and-textbooks-do-the-math/ How the best knowledge gets to everybody to learn Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:50:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Laptops Express http://www.goldenswamp.com/2006/07/13/laptops-and-textbooks-do-the-math/comment-page-1/#comment-11222 Laptops Express Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:45:44 +0000 http://goldenswamp.com/?p=758#comment-11222 No kidding! Each child could easily have a laptop in their possession for learning right now if the government would get with the program. I'm sure lobbyists from various organizations are currently pushing their influences one way or the other...but I also know the government has never been very good at accountibility or math for that matter! No kidding! Each child could easily have a laptop in their possession for learning right now if the government would get with the program. I’m sure lobbyists from various organizations are currently pushing their influences one way or the other…but I also know the government has never been very good at accountibility or math for that matter!

]]> By: Antoine of MMM http://www.goldenswamp.com/2006/07/13/laptops-and-textbooks-do-the-math/comment-page-1/#comment-6427 Antoine of MMM Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:09:56 +0000 http://goldenswamp.com/?p=758#comment-6427 Excellent article. I have just been going thru your site and in a respect catching up. This piece is excellent for both thought and purpose though. If it is that the Internet is such a great resource, teachers/instructors should be pushing the nature of its use to in many respects be a textbook replacement. Sure, in many schools, you will find that a student will want to print something out for shared projects and/or highlighted reference. But it is surely possible in many schools to push computer usage to just using the Internet for the textbook, yet revive commentary and discourse for the actual teaching. It does remind me of how I did courses when I taught summer courses. It was honestly too much of an issue to use a text book for Internet related subjects and so to be able to give a range of subjects and then follow up with the students on what they found online (having already told them about the veracity of online information and how to spot shady and not so shady info). It could be a really successful method if used in the right contexts. Most definitely something to consider doing again if I get the chance. Excellent article. I have just been going thru your site and in a respect catching up. This piece is excellent for both thought and purpose though. If it is that the Internet is such a great resource, teachers/instructors should be pushing the nature of its use to in many respects be a textbook replacement. Sure, in many schools, you will find that a student will want to print something out for shared projects and/or highlighted reference. But it is surely possible in many schools to push computer usage to just using the Internet for the textbook, yet revive commentary and discourse for the actual teaching.

It does remind me of how I did courses when I taught summer courses. It was honestly too much of an issue to use a text book for Internet related subjects and so to be able to give a range of subjects and then follow up with the students on what they found online (having already told them about the veracity of online information and how to spot shady and not so shady info). It could be a really successful method if used in the right contexts. Most definitely something to consider doing again if I get the chance.

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