A retired physicist, David Anderson, Phd, wants to put kids in K-12 schools on a conveyor belt and churn them out. His school system is called Stellar Schools.
In Anderson's dream world, every kid would have a laptop where they could access content for all courses in the core curriculum at remote sites.
Routine teacher functions would be automated - every 30 seconds, a speaker would say 'sit down' 'stop pulling her hair' or 'hang up your coat.'
The lectures would be web-based video lectures. If you can't get a kid to sit down in class, how can you get them to sit in front of a pc monitor?
I am for online learning, using high-tech and having a standardized curriculum. But, something in my belly tells me it won't work for the little people at school.
Someone has to turn on the pc, set up the chairs, show the squirt where the delete key is "what does delete mean?" that sort of thing.
The school system has problems, but I am not sure Stellar School Franchises or the likes is the answer, just yet.
What do you think?
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