Google taking over the classroom

[psikeyhackr]

Originally Posted by Jowel

I agree very much with this and the other big concern I have is that ultimately Google will be advocating what is best for Google, which may or may not be advocating for what is in the interest of educational improvement or the public.

So why should students or parents care about any of these corporations? Why can't we arrange education regardless of corporations.

What difference does it make which hardware or OS us used to read:

Leonardo da Vinci, Pathfinder of Science, by Henry Sampson Gillette

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54827...-h/54827-h.htm

[psikeyhackr]

Originally Posted by JStubak

Another thing that no one mentioned is that these tech companies are mining data and psychologically profiling children.

Creepy.

If we created a 32 gigabyte block of knowledge, off line copies could be made and given to every grade school student. Each child could learn whatever they wanted without being monitored.

A 500 page book is 1 megabyte. So that is equivalent to more than 32,000 books since most books are less than 500 pages. And that does not even take compression into account which could nearly double the number.

[flair666]

I think this program is good for the development of all students. They need to know how technology works for them, making our tasks easier.