Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Digital Aristotle



I've been thinking about education and how to improve my teaching for quite a while. This idea of a 'Digital Aristotle' is interesting not because of its novelty, but because of its simplicity. I agree that traditional education methods are outdated and need to evolve to our ever-growing technological society. Although, I'm a little skeptical about sticking children in front of computers; age is naturally a limiting factor for how useful the Internet is to a particular user. We also see in adults that mental agility is a limit. I waste a lot of time on my computer. Games and movies plague my hard drive. A lot of the time I spend an hour or two Googling something only to remain scratching my head. I think being able to harness the Internet as a learning tool takes a lot of finesse to master and isn't as intuitive as it may seem.

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