Comments | shannonlj2: Wow

shannonlj2

Wow

Nov 17, 2005 15:14

As a teacher this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4445060.stm is absolutely thrilling. This could be the largest step forward education and education technology has seen in a really long time. In this country, use of such product could have an amazing impact ( Read more... )

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sailormom November 17 2005, 22:32:22 UTC

I think it is excellent. I am not a a teacher, but I'm a mom, maybe it's like the same thing only different. :)

shannonlj2 November 18 2005, 03:45:41 UTC

Mom's are teachers too.

:)

cheetahmaster November 17 2005, 23:05:14 UTC

IMHO, it's not even the technology gap that will make this revolutionary (presuming it works, of course.) It's the communication gap. The internet has already changed the world, and this is only going to spread it farther and faster.

shannonlj2 November 18 2005, 03:45:26 UTC

I don't disagree. To me what matters is that it is getting into the hands of children. Imagine the children of the gap affected world growing up without an awareness of the gap, but with a full awareness of the world.

It changes everything.

cheetahmaster November 18 2005, 16:29:46 UTC

Early 90's, back on USENet, I ended up chatting with a girl my age in South Africa, and having her tell me about the nightlife over there. It was fantastic, and not an experience I would have had any other way than accidentally. That's tearing down borders, baby.

shannonlj2 November 18 2005, 16:42:18 UTC

The first time I ever used the internet was to look at the Village Voice to find an apartment in NYC from my folks basement in Pa. It took FOREVER to load the page (I used webcrawler to find it!), but I was in absolute awe. I got how big it was right away.

Pity I didn't buy stock in Yahoo though...