In primary settings it's common to see students making exactly the same errors (spelling, punctuation grammar) as they would do when writing in a workbook, but I find it's a lot harder to track and follow up. A good old pile of workbooks at the end of a lesson provides so much richness for figuring out common misconceptions etc.
I think there is the "future jobs" thing as you mentioned, but I also think there is a strong "efficiency" thing driving it too. If we can automate it, it will be quicker and easier....but it's not, really. I spent 20 years in a very computer-centric career and the more ideas people came up with to automate and integrate and all that, it mostly just created work for the people selling and maintaining the systems it seemed.
Yes, the tendency is for people to see children as ‘mini-adults’ not recognising what is developmentally appropriate for them.
Yes and we have really come unstuck there when it comes to hand held devices. The genie is out of the bottle.
In primary settings it's common to see students making exactly the same errors (spelling, punctuation grammar) as they would do when writing in a workbook, but I find it's a lot harder to track and follow up. A good old pile of workbooks at the end of a lesson provides so much richness for figuring out common misconceptions etc.
I think there is the "future jobs" thing as you mentioned, but I also think there is a strong "efficiency" thing driving it too. If we can automate it, it will be quicker and easier....but it's not, really. I spent 20 years in a very computer-centric career and the more ideas people came up with to automate and integrate and all that, it mostly just created work for the people selling and maintaining the systems it seemed.
Yes, make work project. I guess nobody in tech wants to do themselves out of a job!