Monday, January 7, 2013

Asimov on the Khan Academy, Wikipedia, etc

From before the internet (1988) a video interview Isaac Asimov on Bill Moyers World of Ideas; Asimov is arguing that if you let kids loose with their own computers and the ability to access on-line info relating to their own interests, (as well as a certain amount of required learning and interactions with other kids), then learning can lose the stigma of being kid stuff. As Moyers puts it, the reward of school is like the reward of prison, that when you're educated they let you out and you don't need to go back. (And you're all grown up.)
Of course, we'd probably want a rather drastic reduction in the list of things that kids are required to study.
Maybe.

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