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>Actually, we now know a lot more about how to teach children, not
>that it is necessarily put into practice much. We know more about
>how children best learn, how the brain works, that there are
>different learning styles and that all children should not be taught
>the same way. We are even learning more about the use/abuse of
>homework. We also now know that beating, caning, and shaming
>children is not conducive to good learning, and indeed is likely to
>make children unable to concentrate, and to act up. I could go on,
>but this will do.
it seems to me that most of these things have always been known by some
people but usually ignored by others. As for the things that have not been
known--knowledge of how the brain functions at the synapse level, for
example, is interesting and important but how has any of it yet translated
into improved clasroom learning? And little of this has anything to do
with the use of computers in the classroom. My, probably poorly expressed,
meaning was that computers in themselves do not change the fundamentals of
how most classrooms function--for better or for worse. They are just tools
to be used by teachers, who either care that children learn or don't.
mary jo powell
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Austin TX
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