On top of being a fun toy to play with the kids will want to learn. It could be good in a multitude of ways. You have to really think of all the tasks kids do and from geography to learning instruments or just playing around with everyday items. All could be simulated on the screen without making a huge mess in the classroom.
If this isn't good idea for the classroom then dammit all the hours I spent playing Oregon Trail and Number Munchers when I was a kid were lost in vain...
There is only so much you can do to help kids learn. Tech is more and more supplementing the teacher's abilities and soon enough... our children will be taught by computers and being babysat by teachers with no degrees. Don't disconnect children from human interaction so early in life. Let them do that on their own when they're older.
Now I get all the Terminator references....but really, the whole "Great Job!" thing is throwing me off.
What the hell does Tim and Eric Awesome Show: Great Job! have to do with multi-touch computers being put into classrooms? Unless of course it's a reference to the episode where Eric gets on a similar computer at a bank and changes his wife's name and sends her the pizza boy porno.
Or maybe don't over think it. Initially I thought "Great Job!" was a caption directed toward the kid who is obviously NOT doing such a great job with his numbers being all over the damn board.
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Ok, now... this is too much. Children do not need a multi-touch to learn. They do need Terminators though.
On top of being a fun toy to play with the kids will want to learn. It could be good in a multitude of ways. You have to really think of all the tasks kids do and from geography to learning instruments or just playing around with everyday items. All could be simulated on the screen without making a huge mess in the classroom.
If this isn't good idea for the classroom then dammit all the hours I spent playing Oregon Trail and Number Munchers when I was a kid were lost in vain...
all oregon trail ever taught me was that death is inevitable and once the water is all gone, we are boned
There is only so much you can do to help kids learn. Tech is more and more supplementing the teacher's abilities and soon enough... our children will be taught by computers and being babysat by teachers with no degrees. Don't disconnect children from human interaction so early in life. Let them do that on their own when they're older.
you have to use your hands? that's like a baby's toy.
Terminators. Especially in the lunch room. No more food fights. That's what I'm talkin' about.
Now I get all the Terminator references....but really, the whole "Great Job!" thing is throwing me off.
What the hell does Tim and Eric Awesome Show: Great Job! have to do with multi-touch computers being put into classrooms? Unless of course it's a reference to the episode where Eric gets on a similar computer at a bank and changes his wife's name and sends her the pizza boy porno.
/Great Job!
Or maybe don't over think it. Initially I thought "Great Job!" was a caption directed toward the kid who is obviously NOT doing such a great job with his numbers being all over the damn board.