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[Twoller]

What about typing skills? Is there any increase in teaching that? Notice how many people on line don't use capitalization or punctuation in their typing, even where they get spelling right.

Being able to put pencil to paper is still a basic literacy skill. If you can't do that, you are not literate.

[Jeanfromfillmore]

Originally Posted by Twoller

What about typing skills? Is there any increase in teaching that? Notice how many people on line don't use capitalization or punctuation in their typing, even where they get spelling right.

Being able to put pencil to paper is still a basic literacy skill. If you can't do that, you are not literate.

Most of what you're pointing out is a result of texting, and yes it has had a great negative impact on writing skills. But the basic things that are not being taught in our grade schools is increasing. We really need to address WHAT IS BEING TAUGHT.

[Twoller]

Originally Posted by Jeanfromfillmore

Most of what you're pointing out is a result of texting, and yes it has had a great negative impact on writing skills. But the basic things that are not being taught in our grade schools is increasing. We really need to address WHAT IS BEING TAUGHT.

I agree completely.

The technological revolution brought to us by the desktop computer has the potential to change education as we know it. There is absolutely no reason why public education should be restricted to publicly housed educational systems. Students should be able to survey and approach the sum total of their educational needs and requirements on an individual basis. We could completely remove the public education system as a tool of socialization. Students who are able to study and achieve beyond the rest should be able to meet their requirements outside of the classroom.

It's not just the primary grades that has this potential. College education also has the potential to exist outside the lecture halls and the administration by PhDs.

[Jeanfromfillmore]

Originally Posted by Twoller

I agree completely.

The technological revolution brought to us by the desktop computer has the potential to change education as we know it. There is absolutely no reason why public education should be restricted to publicly housed educational systems. Students should be able to survey and approach the sum total of their educational needs and requirements on an individual basis. We could completely remove the public education system as a tool of socialization. Students who are able to study and achieve beyond the rest should be able to meet their requirements outside of the classroom.

It's not just the primary grades that has this potential. College education also has the potential to exist outside the lecture halls and the administration by PhDs.

Going beyond a basic education can not happen if the "basics" are not taught. That is what we are dealing with today. It is not just that the socialists have taken over our educational system, it is that our young are not even learning the basics of reading, writing or even simple math. That is the truth and how bad things have become. And I'm not just suggesting a simple hand full, it's a huge percentages that are coming out of our high schools with out even the bare bones basics. This is what should be taught in our primary schools, but it's not. Teachers are getting credential on "how to teach" not "what to teach". This is what the public isn't understanding, that it's what these kinds aren't being taught, but we have teachers who brag about their teaching "skills". Homeschoolers are doing better than public school students, yet their teachers aren't bragging about their "teaching skills" because those homeschoolers are more concerned about what is being taught.

[Twoller]

Originally Posted by Jeanfromfillmore

Going beyond a basic education can not happen if the "basics" are not taught. That is what we are dealing with today. It is not just that the socialists have taken over our educational system, it is that our young are not even learning the basics of reading, writing or even simple math. That is the truth and how bad things have become. And I'm not just suggesting a simple hand full, it's a huge percentages that are coming out of our high schools with out even the bare bones basics. This is what should be taught in our primary schools, but it's not. Teachers are getting credential on "how to teach" not "what to teach". This is what the public isn't understanding, that it's what these kinds aren't being taught, but we have teachers who brag about their teaching "skills". Homeschoolers are doing better than public school students, yet their teachers aren't bragging about their "teaching skills" because those homeschoolers are more concerned about what is being taught.

I'm not talking about going beyond basic education. I am talking about taking the content of basic education directly to the student, superceding both the teacher and the public schools. Think of how we are communicating with each other now. Why shouldn't something as simple as basic education be communicated with the same ease? There is only so much you need to know at any given point in the educational system and only so much you need to know before you graduate. If students could have this summarey laid out to them and reinforced over and over again using modern communications, the public educational system could wind up obsolete.

Your average high school student sees more complexity in a video game than what is required to grasp what is necessary for graduation. All that is necessary is to give them the right information.