Re: Blu-Ray to bring price hike

In article <11upshsn4vjb330@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Hawk <taoHawk2003@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jim Polaski wrote:
In article <11upkrsfnqggpde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Hawk <taoHawk2003@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jim Polaski wrote:
In article <irfou1ttn4cbk2909lj08me18qv94hpctr@xxxxxxx>,
Mayor of R'lyeh <mayor.of.rlyeh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:05:14 -0600, Jim Polaski
<jpolaski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> chose to bless us with the following wisdom:

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2150021/consumers-face-blu-ray-dvd

Sony Pictures will use the introduction of Blu-ray movie DVDs to raise
prices by about 20 per cent, according to a report in The Hollywood
Reporter, a sister publication to vnunet.com.
So I'll be saving even more money when I don't buy a DVD. I wonder
what I'll do with my new found cash? 8)
You can use that case for a new lump of coal to write with on the back
of your shovel by the fireplace(where the light is, oil lamps are too
high-tech and unnecessary in your world) and you can get a few bunches
of carrots for your equine buddy who pulls your buggy since automobile
would also be too high-tech.

A little goes a long way in coal and carrot futures.

One other thought Jim...are you implying that Blu-Ray will have the same
impact on society as the invention of the automobile? What a load of
hogwash...Sony is gonna love you!


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No, I was referring to the mayor of nothing, nowhere and nobody as he
refers to technology in education. Blu-Ray is new so he should shun it
as he does other new things preferring to pinch every penny, have
computers last 15 years, and stay behind the times using coal and
shovels for writing and math while traveling in buggy's to get from here
to there.


How is Blu-Ray going make sure a kid can do long division without a
calculator?

I tend to agree with the Mayor in that a lot of this technology serves
as more of a distraction than anything else. I want my kid to learn how
to do it the hard way first, and use computers and other tools AFTER
they understand the basics.

That's not a problem with having computers in the classroom, but a
problem with curriculum. The computer is a window to information, a
tool, that if used wisely and integrated properly, is not a distraction,
but an aid. IOW, the teachers have to be involved and trained.

Putting 100% of your faith in tools that other people created, without
having any semblance of understanding in how they come up with the
results is not a good thing IMHO.

I never said it was. Turning kids loose to use computers with no purpose
is bad too, that's why if technology is to aid education, it has to be
integrated properly and when tech fails in schools, it's often found
that the teachers weren't trained.

Too many people these days have no idea how the little black box works.

*How* that box works is perhaps meaningless in education. Rather, one
has to teach *transportable* knowledge to students so they are prepared
to use the tools, that is a WP, SS, PP, searching and so on. Done
properly, those tools of technology can enhance the learning process,
but again, if the teachers can't do it, how can they teach the students
to use technology? They can't. That's why training of teachers is so
important.

Go look at Dell's education site, and then compare to what Apple offers.
There is a HUGE difference. Apple can lead a school through the process
of integrating tech into a curriculum and supply the applications
appropriate to each grade. That's hugely important when you consider
that a school buying the *cheap* Dell, is left out on their own to
figure this stuff out and often tech fails and folks blame the
technology, in this case the computer, rather than the administrators of
the program and the lack of training of the teachers.

Oh, and I meant to mention that a school has to create and expectation
that the teachers will use the training and the tools. If they don't,
things also fail. Computers aren't a substitute for teaching, they are a
means of teaching better if used right and they can facilitate that
window to information which is a foundation of learning.

If we take technology out of schools, as the mayor of nothing, nobody
and nowhere would want, schools will never learn to use it and they will
fall farther behind when it comes to giving kids experience to fit into
higher education and the workplace.The students need the exposure to
transportable knowledge.

I don't buy the crap that we have to teach "what they will use in the
workplace and that's Windows". If I did, then a kid in 3rd grade in 1994
would be using Windows 3.1 going into college in 2004 and we know that
doesn't work. That's why transportable knowledge is so important along
with learning how to learn.

--
Regards,
JP
"The measure of a man is what he will do while
expecting that he will get nothing in return!"
.

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