learning disabilities

Plesase can you email facts on the above issue to me?
I would be very grateful.
Thanks.

I’d like to think that classrooms of the future won’t have the same standardized content curriculum that we have now and that class sizes won’t be as big. I’d like to think that in such classrooms the label of ld won’t be applied and students would be free to work at their own levels.

And of course the classrooms will have a computer for every student with voice activation. The computers will be able to read and speak to the student - ld or not - and will be able to take voice commands and voice dictation.

Hmmm . .. all those kids and all those computers all talking at once — guess we’ d better put up sound barriers so they can hear themselves think … what the heck, all the kids are interacting all the time with the computers in their own cubicles and never with each other or the teacher, why bother building school buildings and dragging kids to them and hiring teachers, just leave the kids at home with the computers, who needs socialzation and interaction in learning …

See the classic science fiction story “The Fun They Had”, dating back to the 1950’s but very very apt for this topic; I’m not positive of the author although it may be Asimov.

Hey Virginia, I saw a charter school like this. About 100% of the “instruction” was on computer. There were 4 facilitator teachers who were there for 60 kids or so. Not sure exactly what their function was, maybe to keep the network up?

—des

[quote=”victoria”]Hmmm . .. all those kids and all those computers all talking at once — guess we’ d better put up sound barriers so they can hear themselves think … what the heck, all the kids are interacting all the time with the computers in their own cubicles and never with each other or the teacher, why bother building school buildings and dragging kids to them and hiring teachers, just leave the kids at home with the computers, who needs socialzation and interaction in learning …

See the classic science fiction story “The Fun They Had”, dating back to the 1950’s but very very apt for this topic; I’m not positive of the author although it may be Asimov.[/quote]

In the 1950s, they didn’t have computers yet. More and more people are working from home - if we’re going to prepare children for real life, we should have them schooling at home. My work team is scattered all over the US - we meet through our computers and because we live in the four corners of our country, we can cover a lot of territory much more cheaply for our company than if all lived in the same spot and travelled out.

And with the cost of schools and the safety issues in them these days, more and more people are yearning to keep their children at home.
Some of the socialization that occurs at schools these days is not productive and is harmful. I think I’d say you’re thinking of schools with white picket fences like in the 1950s!

Welp, it was science fiction, though!
Then there was the other story (pretty sure an Asimov one) about the guy who presented himself to the White House with the radical ability to do arithmetic without a computer… with a pencil and paper. It was consdiered to have great military potential.

I do think it depends a lot on where you are (what your classroom will look like). I have this sinking feeling that there will be have schools and have not schools, and they’ll be even more strikingly different than they are now because of a digital divide.