Are Teachers Headed For Obsolescence? 570
dstates writes "One Laptop Per Child reports encouraging results of a bold experiment to reach the millions of students worldwide who have no access to primary school. OLPC delivered tablets to two Ethiopian villages in unmarked boxes without instructions or instructors. Within minutes the kids were opening the boxes and figuring out how to use the Motorola Zoom tablets, within days they were playing alphabet songs and withing a few months how to hack the user interface to enable blocked camera functionality. With the Kahn Academy and others at the high school level and massive open online courses at the college level, are teachers going the way of the Dodo?"
I can see it now (Score:5, Funny)
Just Imagine (Score:5, Funny)
Just imagine what they could do if they had electricity.
Re:I can see it now (Score:5, Funny)
Siri will replace all teachers in the future.
Siri, what is one divided by zero?
Re:Ha, you threaten teacher jobs and see what happ (Score:5, Funny)
That does not jive with national salary rates
That don't jibe neither, honky! ;)
Re:80k for living in NYC? (Score:5, Funny)
And you contract yourself
meet "The Incredible Shrinking... Contractionist!"
Re:80k for living in NYC? (Score:2, Funny)
Come on he has the ability to proof you wrong....
Re:80k for living in NYC? (Score:5, Funny)
And you contract yourself... My bet is your a republican... Proof me wrong
Well, your grade school teachers certainly were way overpaid.