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OLD SCHOOL IN CYBERWORLD.(William Bennett, "K12" Internet-based school)(Brief Article)
"So far, there is no good evidence that most uses of computers significantly improve learning." So said William Bennett, secretary of education under Ronald Reagan, and traditional-values guru, last year. So why has Mr. Bennett, of all people, launched "K12"--an Internet-based school for kindergarten to twelfth grade? Because Mr. Bennett sees computers as a means to an end, not as an educational centerpiece in themselves.
Rather than turning kids into expert Web surfers--which, no surprise, results mainly in efforts to download pre-written term papers and search for porn sites--Bennett sees computers as delivery mechanisms for precisely the old-school learning he has always espoused. "Technology is here. The question is not whether it will be used in education," Bennett acknowledges, "the question is whether we will use it right. Mostly, we have not. It has been used as a substitute for teaching, and the kids end up playing games."
K12, of which Bennett is chairman, is producing curricula which emphasize language arts, phonics, math, science, history, music, and art. In the early grades, only about 25 percent of the class work will actually be done on the computer. The rest of the ...
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