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How Can Tech Help Fight Education Costs?
http101 asks: "With the ever-rising costs of fuel, we seem to forget those that are truly having problems affording it. No, not the homeless, but our own kids. 'Kids,' you ask? Yes, because being driven to school on the 'Yellow Dog' or the 'Edu-Express' better known as a school bus, is costing your state more money than ever before. In my neighborhood, we have a plethora of home connected by fiber and at least high-speed internet. So my question is, how can technology be better-implemented to ensure a student's studies and also lower the costs of fuel for the districts?"
..at least for your grammar. 'Absolutely' is an adverb, and you're using it to modify an adjective, which is incorrect. In addition, 'worse' implies a comparison, which is not being made here. "School is the absolute worst place.." or, "School is absolutely the worst place.." would have been acceptable alternatives.
Sayin'.
--- What
That's probably mostly because technology does _not_ have a use in the learning process. If you go to, say, a college engineering class, most professors use two technological tools: chalk and a chalkboard. That's the time-tested, proven way. It works much better than anything else. Apparently, you have yet to realize that.
In case you haven't noticed, students were a lot smarter before the advent of computers and graphing calculators in schools. I'm sure the quality of instruction would only improve if the school got rid of all the computers and paid teachers more instead. I think young people are already overexposed to computers and don't learn other, more important skills.
This is probably the most hypocritical and narrow-minded "Ask Slashdot" thing I've read. Ever. Of all the issues related to the use of gasoline in America, we must now discuss how to keep the school buses going.
- What about the gas price in other countries? Gas prices in the US are reaching, what, over half the global average? Get some perspective! Over where I live, the price of gas is so high that we can't afford dedicated school buses. The kids typically walk or bike to school. Of course, we have more and smaller schools, where teachers and students actually know each other by name, so there are fewer drug abusers and petty criminals and neighbourhoods are pretty safe.
- What about meddling in the middle-east? How many wars do you need to start in order to protect the oil supply? Each time you fill up your car, you can say to yourself: "Here goes 1/100 of our war casualties. Thanks, dude... whoever you were!"
- And what about the environment issues? The US alone causes so much pollution it's not even funny. Bush refuses to sign the Kyoto agreement, the government rewrites scientific reports to downplay issues... I don't know, this is like peeing in the swimming pool and then maintaining that it doesn't smell and even if it does it's not related to us peeing in it.
--Bud