How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Let students use technologies in the classroom.
Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.
In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous.
I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors.
Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand.
I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much.
Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more.