{"id":549,"date":"2012-02-03T14:26:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T14:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=549"},"modified":"2012-02-03T14:26:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T14:26:40","slug":"is-high-tech-good-for-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/02\/03\/is-high-tech-good-for-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Is high tech good for education?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are high-tech classrooms better classrooms?<br \/>\nDespite the hype over Apple&#8217;s new iPad textbooks, there&#8217;s little proof that gadgets do much to improve education<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/02\/03\/are_high_tech_classrooms_better_classrooms\/singleton\/\">http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/02\/03\/are_high_tech_classrooms_better_classrooms\/singleton\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A good friend and I started work on an idea for educational games years ago (we have been unable to find investors to take it from the current state to a test-able prototype) and I was quite sure that we were working on a winner and convinced our approach was best for students.  Recently I was gung ho over the idea of creating a &#8216;flip school&#8217; where students would get their lecture at home via the &#8216;net and do their homework at school where there would be someone who could help (I sometimes have problems understanding what my 2nd grader&#8217;s teacher is trying to teach our boy).  However, after reading this article I am starting to think that perhaps these approaches are several steps down the slippery slope on the <a href=\"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?s=educational+industrial\">educational industrial complex<\/a>.  Reading about the approaches Finland takes toward education, I think here in the US we are going about things really backwards.  If we were to carefully graft technology onto the Finland approach I think that we would probably have the best of all worlds, but I think until we &#8216;clean house&#8217; and get a stable, functional educational system (which, based on the Finland model, we are far, far away from) adding any sort of technology is just a way to prolong the agony without providing the slightest improvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are high-tech classrooms better classrooms? Despite the hype over Apple&#8217;s new iPad textbooks, there&#8217;s little proof that gadgets do much to improve education http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/02\/03\/are_high_tech_classrooms_better_classrooms\/singleton\/ A good friend and I started work on an idea for educational games years ago (we have been unable to find investors to take it from the current state to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/02\/03\/is-high-tech-good-for-education\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is high tech good for education?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-education","category-informationtechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}