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?"

Comments

This is a joke, right?

[mosel-saar-ruwer]

You have heard of this thing called the NEA, right?

And you are familiar with our looming demographic catastrophe, right?

I mean, come on, be serious.

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Re:This is a joke, right?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, at least blacks will only increase by 1%. I guess the Jews are pretty well on-track in their pursuit of the Eternal Revenge against Whites.

Re:This is a joke, right?

[Anonymous Coward]

All other races look out for themselves, and yet Whites are supposed to accept their demographic decline with cheers and exuberance. The day will come when Whites stop caring what's "racist" or not - and people like you will be up against a wall.

Re:This is a joke, right?

[Runaway1956]

Gotta HAVE kids, before you can educate kids. White Americans are to preoccupied with gay marriage, peter puffing, and fudge packing to have kids. But, hey, when they aren't being queer, the redneck element runs around proclaiming their superiority. Truth in advertising, right? It must be true. And, all the superior asswipes will die out soon.

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.

Stupid cocksuckers deserve to lose whatever strength in numbers that they've enjoyed for the last couple centuries. When the Latin Americans finally become a majority, you can bet all those queer bastards will lose whatever silly "rights" they have voted for themselves. Then, once again, life will become more normal, and a queer will be called a queer.

Of course, you see the same thing in Europe - declining fertility rates, increasing foreign populattions, etc.

The end of the "White Man's Dynasty" is approaching. And, they'll be remembered as a bunch of peter puffing assholes, much as we remember ancient Greece.