One thing going for the traditional classroom is that there are no distractions such as mobile phones and tables allowed there. If you had every kid sitting home at their computer trying to learn on their own, I suspect most of them would fall behind assisted by AI or not. What percentage of their time would they be playing games or hanging out on social media as opposed to actually doing any work?
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It depends what they have already learned I guess.
What do you mean? That if what they are taught is known to them they will become bored and that if it's something new they will do their work?
I have two teachers in the family and they say that today's kids tend to have poorer work ethic than kids 10-30 years ago. Their attention span is often shorter, they complain more and fail to take responsibility more often.
Today's kids, particularly teenagers, tend to be glued to their mobile devices providing a constant stream of entertainment and social interaction which is why 4-6 hours of practice a day in sitting still without distractions and focusing on their work even if it's a little boring is exactly what they need. Instead of being left on their own devices(!) at their computers at home, the kids would probably benefit from mindfulness training as part of physical education, for example.
Today's school is not some static institution unwilling to reform itself. Especially the upper echelons of education management in today's Finland are filled with reform-minded idealists. Computers and gamification are touted everywhere and there are all sorts of reform movements afoot, some making sense and some not. In teachers' professional journals reforming teaching is a constantly raised topic.
According to the new national curriculum, the pupil is "central". It is interpreted in various ways but quite often headmasters (or more typically headmistresses) consider it to mean that school ought to cater to the whims of the pupils in comprehensive school or particularly students in secondary schools. The situation resembles a slow-motion cultural revolution akin to Mao's China with the top level management having their heads in the clouds, some of the most impudent students given too much leeway (even secondary school students tend to be quite immature) and "old authorities" a.k.a the teachers who are still held responsible for maintaining peace and order in class being crushed in between.
As said. It is what they have learned. 85% of the brain structure is developed by age 3 which includes a lot of the skill frames that support learning. Perhaps if their parents had been better educated, they wouldn't have been so quick to sit them in front of a TV or put a device in their hands.
The children from 30 years ago would run and play and jump. This prepared them in a different way. The children today are encouraged to be consumers. Blaming the children is like blaming the car for running out of fuel.
The current garden we have created for most children is the playground at a McDonald's restaurant.
I don't think you could keep teenagers away from the wireless devices found everywhere in our society even if nobody under seven years of age were allowed to touch them. The young and the old seem to be using tablets and mobile phones alike.
Nobody is blaming the children. What I'm saying is that having the kids sit too much at the computer at home instead of participating in traditional classroom education at school would only make that situation worse. Are you saying that parents are at fault for not making it feasible to have the children homeschooled by AI's on their computers because they've given them too much screen time at an age too young?
It isn't in the usage, it is what they are using them for.
I am saying that in the future, what people imagine as education now (even the 'cutting edge') could look fundamentally different than what people currently think. For starters, the AI is going to make many of the jobs school trains for redundant and if things go really well, there will get to a point where people do not need to educate for work, they educate for enjoyment. It is not a 2 years or 4 year project run by a government hoping to be elected again.
Yes... There's supposed be a new way of learning that will help them to stick and glue to it.... For example, the virtual game graphics will attract so much a kid than just white pages and plenty write up..... Graphics and knowing what encourage children to study should be noted for both school and parent.... Or what do you think?
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