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Tue May-31-11 05:25 AM
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42. Yes, because teachers are just glorified information dispensers.

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Newsflash: the *world's best teachers* have personal relationships with students through socratic dialectic. That means: student asks question, teacher responds and deepens the inquiry, another student asks more refined question, teacher responds, and so on. Online videos don't do that. Most students simply can't learn solely from online interactive technologies. They simply CAN'T.

This is not a new form of education; it's the death of education. It will work fine for brilliant students; it will be a disaster for anyone short of brilliant in a subject.

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