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Ask Slashdot: Is E-Learning a Viable Option?

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-more-teachers-no-more-books dept.

An anonymous reader writes "My spouse, who is an elementary school science teacher, has had some experience in e-learning, since her school gave iPads to all the students. She found that students used these devices, not for school purposes like note taking, but for gaming, etc. It got to the point that she banned them from her classroom. Do technology aids help, or hinder, education? Is the idea that students can be home-schooled electronically realistic, or absurd?"

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  1. Re:Automatic notetaking is nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Especially since kids don't get textbooks anymore (thanks to Republican backed funding cuts)"

    Tiresome.

    Get the government and unions out of education, and watch achievement return to what it was in the '50s and '60s.