[OLPC-Asia] Are Teachers Headed For Obsolescence?

[tkkang at nurturingasia.com]

Maybe they are heading for weekend singing/dancing session to equip themselves. Is this problem an issue in students in China?

For the time is changing.....“I’m an entertainer. I have to do a song and dance to capture their attention,” This is OK for some but not OK for thousands of teachers. I am sure there are some ways to return to the basic ABC.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/education/technology-is-changing-how-students-learn-teachers-say.html


The XO is good for reasons it is developed for reflective learning. 
Hope you all could do the XO in the Box Experiment by celebrating it with some children on Nov 16, XoD. Looking forward to good news from up north!

Have a good weekend


>-----Original Message-----
>From: lite li [mailto:litekok at gmail.com]
>Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2012 01:02 AM
>To: olpc-asia at lists.laptop.org
>Subject: Re: [OLPC-Asia] Are Teachers Headed For Obsolescence?
>
>“If they can learn to read, then they can read to learn,” - Negroponte
>“What can we do for these 100 million kids around the world who don’t go to
>school?”
>http://www.technologyreview.com/view/429206/emtech-preview-another-way-to-think-about-learning/
>http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506466/given-tablets-but-no-teachers-ethiopian-children-teach-themselves/
>
>
>平板電腦正在改變教育方式:
>http://www.inside.com.tw/2012/10/31/tablets-are-changeing-our-education
>
>On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 9:03 PM, lite li <litekok at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello, everyone,
>>
>>   Here share a OLPC news:
>>
>> http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/10/29/1245207/are-teachers-headed-for-obsolescence
>>
>>   This is a Chinese version:
>>   http://society.solidot.org/article.pl?sid=12/10/30/091247
>>
>> BR,
>> Lite
>>
>