Are there schools in the world that teach directly on the laptops? having a teacher walk around supervising 25 kids each on their laptop vs having one TV or smartboard? Laptops might be good for "practicals" but my feel is one teacher teaching 25 to 35 students works better with a TV or smartboard. Then students can hand in homework, research, lesson plans etc on laptops.

We might be going in the wrong direction because it sounds "modern"

However it might work: There was nothing wrong with manual transmission but people adoped automatic anyway. Similarly there is nothing wrong with auto and now guys are moving to TipTronic and DSG ...

On 26 May 2015 at 12:34, Dennis Kioko via skunkworks <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
That's a good idea. 

However, it denies personal attention that every student needs. Notice that when classrooms grew to more than 50 children under free education, the quality of education went down. 

There's a reason why classrooms should carry a maximum of 35 - 40 students, because that's as much as a single teacher is able to handle. 

A TV is a dumb terminal. A PC can have some teaching functions automated and the student followed a little closer, but can't replace a teacher. 

On Tue, 26 May 2015 at 10:13 Francis Mwangi Chege via skunkworks <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
Just a wild thought,

Instead of Jubilee laptops/tablets, wouldnt a TV in each classroom be better tool, and then teach students centrally from studio, with the resident teachers acting as assistants. That may ensure that teaching is also standardized and equal in quality especially in all public school.
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