So... I started to read this article about a Stanford Study to do with apps and "what will my child learn?" and before I was even through the start of it I could hear my head saying... "just what do you WANT them to learn... really?"
In a classroom students can't be forced to LEARN... at best you can co-erce them into activities (including 'playing' with apps) that consolidate learning, reinforce concepts, drill, etc - but it is all mostly just lower level Blooms stuff - remembering knowledge, reorganising knowledge, regurgitating knowledge - if you are lucky they may independently apply knowledge.
But can you please have a stern pedogogical talk with yourself... what do you actually want for your children/students? What is the point.. the end game of putting them in the public education system.
The traditional mainstream education system is still largely the same as it was when it was created - a factory for producing a person that fits into and supports that hierarchical / pyramid system for industrialised society.
The goal of this system was to produce clones for the British Empire that could be plonked anywhere in the world to run various branches of their colonisation.
To be continued.... (e.g. Not finished but I have a huge back log of draft posts and I need to get some of them published!! I will get back to this ASAP! and link it).
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