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Is Early Childhood Education Technology Moving Backwards?
theodp writes "Four decades ago, the NSF-sponsored PLATO Elementary Reading Curriculum Project (pdf) provided Illinois schoolchildren with reading lessons and e-versions of beloved children's books that exploited networked, touch-sensitive 8.5"x8.5" bit-mapped plasma screens, color images, and audio. Last week, the Today Show promoted the TeacherMate — a $100 gadget that's teaching Illinois schoolchildren to read and do math using its 2.5" screen and old-school U-D-L-R cursor keys — as a revolution in education. Has early childhood education managed to defy Moore's Law?"
I think that claiming that if most people wont be white then it will be a catastrophe, is simply racism
These days, the vast, vast majority of white people see past skin color. That is why even the extremely right-wing Bush government included a number of blacks, Hispanics and Asians among its prominent leadership positions.
Oddly enough, the people who put the most emphasis on race today are blacks and Hispanics. They're the ones who we often see pointing out the irrelevant difference in skin color, often trying to use it as an excuse why they haven't "succeeded" in life.
Of course, they totally ignore how they've systematically rejected the public education that has been generously offered to them, in favor of worshipping a "thug" culture that promotes ignorance, violence, drug abuse, prostitution and vandalism.
We hear time and time again of young black students who reject the "white education" in favor of joining gangs. Or we hear of Latinos who care only about selling and abusing drugs. Of course, there are a small number of white and Asian youth who also try to emulate this pathetic way of life.
The main fear isn't that whites will be in the minority. The problem is actually that the soon-to-be small minority of whites, blacks, Hispanics and Asians who have managed to become the most civilized will be vastly outnumbered by the scum that have rejected the values of our society.
That will be the downfall of America, and no amount or type of technology will prevent that. It's a sociological problem, not a technical problem.
[i]No, I'm not Black, Asian, Latino - I'm a mongrel mixed breed. I can badmouth ALL the ignorant bastids, 'cause I'm related to them.[/i]
No, you're just an ignorant asshole diverting a good discussion into your filth.
I don't know what kind of crack I was on, but I suspect it was decaf.
I think that claiming that if most people wont be white then it will be a catastrophe, is simply racism
Rated -1 flamebait. Wow. Simply wow. One can only assume that the mod agrees that if most people aren't white then it is a catastrophe. Glad to see that racists and/or juvenile trolls are represented in the mod community.
Of course, if history is any guide, "White America," will just redefine "white" and regain the majority. :P