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Goodbye to your job.
I’ve showed this video to 3 classes now:
Afterwards I ask each class “What does this mean for education”
And each class responds: “No need for teachers anymore.” Actually one class said “Goodbye to your job!”
Interesting response I think.
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Hi,
I fail to see the connection of surface computing with education and with the possibility of teachers losing jobs. Please elaborate.
Albert
Albert,
I don’t see it either, I just fond it interesting that my students (6 and 7 grade) when asked the question came up with this as an answer. When I asked them how this replaces teachers, they said:
“Because you can interact with anything”
“We’ll just be watching you”
“Does it have a web browser so you can watch YouTube?”
I don’t think it will replace teachers, but I find it fascinating that students are getting to a point that they see a new technology like this and their reaction is it will replace teachers. Why? What do they know that we’re missing?
Jeff,
This is really interesting.
Being grade 6 and 7, the students, I would expect, should be able to see that teachers are more than an interface for them to connect information/knowledge.
🙂
Albert
Jeff,
The Register as always has some interesting takes on MS’ surface computing. Please see:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/03/surface_computing_analysis/
and
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/01/fentem_microsoft_surface/
Cheers,
Brian
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