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Is this happening in your neighborhood? Children, notebook computers stuck u
Is this happening in your neighborhood? Children, notebook computers stuck u
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2025-04-19
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Is this happening in your neighborhood? Children, notebook computers stuck under their arms, await the yellow bus for the trip to middle school. On the surface, the question of computers in schools is a no-brainer. It would be strange to insist that today’s technology shouldn’t be used to make the classroom experience more individualized, more effective, more immediate, more exciting. Computers have been in schools more than 20 years — and probably even done some good.
But the idea of a personal computer as a necessary daily tool for every American grammar school pupil is altogether different thing. Beware the superficially attractive vision of 10-year-olds doing most of their work — and homework — on a computer. It’s another illusory silver bullet that promises to solve all of society’s ills through technology. Regardless of whether parents or taxpayers buy the machinery, it’s a bad policy.
Determining the proper role of computers in schools is too important to be left to computer suppliers and educators. An educated public with clear and realistic expectations needs to help determine the right track for technology.
Educators forever seem to seek the ultimate in curricular or teaching tools. They are always preoccupied with innovation — junior high school, new math, whole language, open classrooms and mastery learning, to name a few. Some ideas turned out well and over time have earned permanent positions in our education systems. Other reflected change for changes’ sake and wound up in the trash bin, where they belong.
Exactly what is to be solved with computers in schools? Are we looking to improve instructional capacity and flexibility? Are we trying to make teachers and aides more productive by letting students take advantage of programmed learning tools? This all sounds good, and much has been accomplished with computer-assisted instruction.
But that’s not the same as making the computer a symbol of well-tempered educational policy. There’s danger in the message that a child is not fully educated if he or she can’t surf the World Wide Web skillfully, move around in Windows or the Founder, use a word processing program, or program in Logo or Basic.
These skills can be learned outside the classroom. Worse, the time it takes students to acquire them is time stolen from the legitimate teaching schedule — and that’s a bad trade.
And what kind of computers should be purchased? We’re not talking brand names. Most school systems don’t have the money to replace PCs or Macs on the two-to-three-year cycle that shifts technologies demand. On the other hand, $2, 500 — the cost of just one computer — invested in books for the school library produces an asset that has, shall we say, a longer shelf life.
And who changes the factory culture of schoolrooms to allow computers to be more effective? And who teaches the teachers? These are the really tough issues — the ones that more hardware won’t solve.
Children are best served when schools contribute to shaping the solid foundations on which their future will be built. The student who can read with curiosity and understanding, who has mastered basic mathematical concepts, who can evaluate ideas critically, is the one schools should aim to produce. [br] In the last paragraph the author implies that______.
选项
A、computer skills contribute nothing to a proper education
B、computer teaching is an indispensable part of education
C、the fundamental purpose of an education is being ignored
D、teachers should be taught how to teach computer skills
答案
C
解析
根据文章最后一段“Children are best served when schools contribute to shaping the solidfoundations…is the one schools should aim to produce”可知,如果学校帮助学生形成未来成功的坚实基础,那么它们就向孩子们提供了最好的服务。学校的目标应该是使学生具备阅读欲望和阅读能力,掌握基本的数学概念,具备批判思维、辨别是非的能力。言外之意,学校教育的基本功能被忽略了。据此判断,答案是C。
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