On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: > The real school of the future won't have classrooms at all, and no > "teachers" as we now know them. Instead there will be workstations with VR > helmets and a number of software "gurus" in the machine tailoring themselves to > the individual students needs and personality. The machine will never be tired > or grumpy or just having a bad day or serious personality problems like human > teachers. The software will have the same entrancing allure of good computer > games with the addition of sounds and light patterns of our present day mind > machines to adjust brain waves to optimal receptivity and retainment, and > function in the well-proven pattern of learning by feeding information, testing, > feeding more info or reviewing areas as needed, and just as fast, or as slow, as > each student requires. > There will be no inattentive students, time on the machine will be the > highlight of their week, and they'll probably be able to get more actual > learning done in 4-5 hours as they now do in a week. And we could have these > schools in place today with today's hardware -- all we need is someone to write > the software.
This reminds me of the "mind link" hardware I suggested to Tim Leary when he came to Chicago a decade back. Let's keep the classroom, just spread it out over the net. Grumpyness isn't always a bad thing, it seems to create a lot of entertainment on this list anyway :-) Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike
