This school year is the 93rd year of universal public education. An article from Seth Godin, describes a system originally designed to churn out factory workers.
This weekend Isaac was assigned a large homework project to help him understand literature genres. While we complied with the assignment of printing out the pictures and pasting them into a little book (not raging against the machine too much over here), we first created a website with similar information.
It gave us a good excuse to discuss writing HTML documents, and did not cost any additional time. Dear teacher, the online document is also searchable, linkable, OS independent, and does not require 28 pages of paper.
We'll let you know how it's received.
Tuesday, September 06, 2011
School: Universal Public Education
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They call that "enrichment". Good job! Love, Mom/Gammy
HA!!!! :) That was fantastic! I noticed all the Kindle versions! Uncle Michael would be super proud, too, Isaac! He would be cringing at the huge waste of paper. Thanks for the great smile you gave me today!
Love you guys! Nancy
I've used "links" before, but usually they have a URL address. Clicked on the blue highlighted area and looked at Isaac's work for his English project--good stuff, Isaac. On some of the books, it says to click to see inside. Did that actually work? Love, Gammy
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