Neat. Thanks.
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I think this thing's niche could be education.
Something with video, sound, and tactile manipulation would fit right into how a good number of children learn.
Regards,
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Yup.
Most mornings I see bunches of little kids walking to elementary school with huge packs on their backs. Something that frees them from lugging textbooks around would be a good thing, too. If Jobs is smart, he'll push the book-reader aspects of this thing really hard.
I just got an e-mail from Theodore singing the praises of his Elements on the iPad. :-) Cheers, Scott. |
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Wrong solution to that problem
The problem with kids struggling under packs of books is that they're taking home that much work at all.
The research base showed no correlation between academic achievement and homework -- besides reading -- in elementary school, a small benefit in middle school and more for high school.http://ed.stanford.e...me=notify1&id=580 Even though the objective statistics claim homework in the elementary level has little effect on testing, I'm going to go ahead and describe a subjective benefit that justifies doing it anyway.http://lrs.ed.uiuc.e...cthome/page5.html I may have corrected a typo in the highlighted part of that last one. In other words, no kid under 12 should ever be bringing home books. It doesn't help. Making it easier to carry the books is solving the wrong problem. --
Drew |
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Interesting.
Dunno that I agree, but it's something to think about.
Cheers, Scott. (Who honestly doesn't remember doing a lot of homework in grade school, but does remember having issues practicing cursive writing at home in 3rd grade.) |
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Re: Interesting.
I can say that when I take a look at the literally hours of work my kids (8 & 10) are supposed to do each night that I think it's completely insane.
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