Originally Posted by
Pain
Ms Iris & Ms Vee – replies from different perspectives, both arriving at the same conclusion. I hope your optimism is born out over time: everyone remembers a good (or bad) teacher; but an electronically-generated interface….?
Just returning to qwerty-keyboard skills replacing cursive writing – aren’t they already becoming obsolete through the adoption of voice commands/voice-to-text applications?
The lockdown seems to have shown that some children won’t apply themselves to anything that looks like learning in the absence of someone with authority’s beady eye on them. Perhaps a virtual classroom would have virtual corporal punishment – Milgram-like shock treatment administered by a computer. Pavlov’s dogs? The Manchurian Candidate? I apologise – I’m digressing and tiptoeing on to other NMP posters’ preserves.