By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Re: The Basics: Your Office on the Web
Thanks for taking note of Ian's post, Stephen! As you say, Zoho can be used for many of the things above - Zoho Planner for your to-dos, Zoho Show for your presentations, Zoho Writer for your documents and Zoho Sheet for your spreadsheets. More...
19 septembre 2019
Re: Wrong Problem, Wrong Solution
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Re: Wrong Problem, Wrong Solution
I know that in BC it is quite possible to graduate from high school without knowing the quadratic formula. So, unless this jurisdiction is more unusual than I think it is, Shank doesn't seem to know his head from a hole in the ground. Of course it will always be true that "We need more people who can think. We need to teach job skills, people skills, and reasoning skills. And we need to make education exciting and interesting." But Shank surrounds these observations with so much incoherent and contradictory posturing that I would consider his polemic virtually useless for persuading anyone who actually does know how to think. For example, his "Here are reasons why" (teaching math and science "better") "is simply the wrong answer"(to the question of "why American kids aren't interested" in science and engineering) is followed not by reasons but by a series of rhetorical questions directed not at that issue but rather at the motives of foreign students - which he does not relate at all to the lack of motives for domestic ones. Then later he says "The right answer would be to make math and science actually interesting" - but isn't that exactly what teaching them "better" would consist of??? But then again, why *is* this the right answer if, as he asserts a bit further on, "What also makes no sense is the idea that math and science are important subjects". More...
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