Sweden embraced screens in classrooms and pushed books aside. Years later, the country is making a costly reversal that says everything about what went wrong.
Great, I say, with kids in middle school, here in Sweden.
Problem has not been the hardware,
Partly software, due to it is shit “it must be cheap”.
Example, where I failed the test, the word training software provided me with the word for “Farfar” which is specific for dads father in Swedish, I wrote grandfather…“wrong” it is grandad…
Ok let’s try again…Granddad…“wrong” it shall be “grandad”
No development. It is as dumb as 1998 bash code…
But first and foremost…
The process, the school organisation does not have a single way of communicating to the kids, in our school, each teacher used different platforms to communicate to the kids ie teams, WhatsApp mail etc. They did not understand or like the provided software they should use etc.computer system knowledge is at a very low level.
I blame the organism behind the main keyboard, most teachers does not have the right competency to teach with the tool at hand.
You have a beautiful tool that can hold worlds knowledge, but it means shit when the mentor does not know or even refuse to embrace the the tool and develop how to use, it then it does not help.
It like taking driving lessons from a persons that has only handled a horse.
Great, I say, with kids in middle school, here in Sweden. Problem has not been the hardware,
Partly software, due to it is shit “it must be cheap”. Example, where I failed the test, the word training software provided me with the word for “Farfar” which is specific for dads father in Swedish, I wrote grandfather…“wrong” it is grandad… Ok let’s try again…Granddad…“wrong” it shall be “grandad” No development. It is as dumb as 1998 bash code…
But first and foremost… The process, the school organisation does not have a single way of communicating to the kids, in our school, each teacher used different platforms to communicate to the kids ie teams, WhatsApp mail etc. They did not understand or like the provided software they should use etc.computer system knowledge is at a very low level. I blame the organism behind the main keyboard, most teachers does not have the right competency to teach with the tool at hand.
You have a beautiful tool that can hold worlds knowledge, but it means shit when the mentor does not know or even refuse to embrace the the tool and develop how to use, it then it does not help.
It like taking driving lessons from a persons that has only handled a horse.