Nelson//Education
So, as I’ve been doing my reading for class tomorrow, I can’t help but to keep thinking about our conversation we were having at the end of class regarding education. While the idea of having a computer system to teach students sounds great….it really lacks in a lot of the important things that students need. Each student is different. Each person is different. That means that they require different things out of a class. For example, I had a hard time learning how to read when I was little. I was just an average kid in second grade…except I had no idea what was going on in the classroom. By third grade my public school pulled me out of classes in their attempts to help me with a smaller class setting with other kids that had problems in the classroom. The only thing was I had a learning disorder while most of the other students that were pulled out had social or mental disorders. This made the environment even more distracting and confusing for me. The funny thing is that my public school was really advanced for that time…it wasn’t until recently that public schools started requiring more specialized help for other students. Anyways, I was fortunate to go to another school that specialized in students with learning disorders, while who knows what happened to the other students that were pulled out of classes with me. My point is that each student is shaped differently and requires separate attention that only a person can decipher. Having a computer system full of information cannot be the only medium to teach or correct information. That work is only something a human can do.
