Digital Opportunities Falls Short of Ideal

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Reuban Schwarz: Digital Opportunities Falls Short of Ideal, September 12, 2005

In the news today, it turns out that driving a car will do nothing to improve your equestrian skills. And in similar news, "none of the (e-learning) projects made a significant impact in encouraging students to pursue studies in maths or science, or on students staying in school." This project especially, which appears to have consisted of teachers being "dumped on" with Generation XP Microsoft educational products and told to "make do". More...