detail that particularly draws my attention during the last lesson of computer science: in Australia, in areas populated by nothing but farms, children do not go to school together but they lesson via each radio at home. personal thoughts immediately following: OK, thanks to technology, we can now do just about everything, but maybe we are not exaggerating a bit? It is worth sbarazzarzi socializing effect of being at school together to save time and effort of the journey to school?
response post-personal thought: it depends on the distance to school. Considering how the vast Australian outback area where your neighbor lives 300 km away from you if not more, maybe get to by car to school every day would be complicated then yes, the school radio seems the answer to problem.
Reflections during the week: the Australian case, the situation reminds of the Brazilian favelas, another place where it was recently found using a "socially useful" technology. In Rio de Janeiro shanty town has been installed between the wi-fi, in a way which could benefit all the inhabitants (some Italian areas still do not have DSL ...). This was enabled by the project "Digital Inclusion" of the Brazilian government is trying to combat the marginalization of these areas and gradually give everyone access to basic services. This certainly represents a big step forward for the education of those territories. We can say the same of the Australian situation, where thanks to the organization of the school radio children do not lose the opportunity to take advantage of school education in their case would be extremely difficult to achieve. This does not mean however that they must do without one of the most important elements of training, ie the social, the child learns at school first.
I think of how my life might have been if I had school lessons by staying comfortably at my house, woke up at 8 instead of at 6.30, without having to take two buses to get across town, listening to the voice of ' teacher while I sit on the couch, still in pajamas, munching breakfast. But so much comfort I was willing to give up the friendships made at school, the complicity with their classmates, the gags with the classmate, the tasks in group class, to have appreciated or hated some teachers? I do not think own. Even now, if I could give lessons via the web, I would give up that hour train journey that separates me from the university in order to enter into a classroom full of people and be able to have lessons together, not everyone at home, certainly more comfortable but also surrounded by the solitude with their own PCs.
So there is no other possibility to study with children and young Australians growing up in these areas? Apparently not, the school's radio seems to be the most viable solution to allow them to still receive an education even though, in my opinion, you lose one of the most entertaining and important that the school teaches.
"What value have these memories? The value is priceless. There is no value in the school. Or rather, it is equal to infinity. The school is not just study. The school experience: friendship, love, pain, joy, success and failure. The school will always work, even if it does not work, because it is not just on what we weigh, but also to everything for which there is no unit of measurement. It 's done, that is, from single people "(John Floris, The factory of the ignorant ).
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