Sebuah proposal yang sedikit radikal untuk sekolah

Saya sudah sering mengajukan pertanyaan “Jika Anda bisa menjadi raja dunia selama sehari, apa yang akan Anda lakukan?” Pertama-tama, Aku akan membuat diriku raja permanen, tapi itu bukan titik. Berikut usulan sedikit radikal saya yang akan menjadi hal kedua yang saya akan lakukan jika saya adalah raja sehari.

Aku bagian dari sebuah klub yang mengeluarkan daur ulang di sekolah kami di pagi hari. Biarkan saya memberitahu Anda, kami mengumpulkan banyak kertas: jika saya mengumpulkan kertas mungkin 15 kamar yang belum pernah kertas mereka dikumpulkan dalam beberapa hari, Aku bisa mengisi tempat sampah seluruh. Tidak tong sampah kecil yang Anda miliki di rumah Anda, Maksudku yang sebesar petugas pembersih menggunakan. Itu banyak.

So where was I? Aduh, kanan, my proposal. Before I get to that, imagine life in 1911 (read about it.) It took weeks to get anywhere, telephones were bleeding edge, people wore corsets and silk hats, and kids used textbooks, paper, and pencils in school. Sekarang 2011 now. You can go from New York to Beijing and back in two or three days, phones that can’t browse the internet are considered bad, people wear t-shirts and jeans, dan… kids use textbooks paper, and pencils in school. Everything’s changed completely… menunggu. Except one thing. Schools.

Schools are stuck in the 1960’s. They need to catch up to the times, and the way to do that is to go paperless. Here’s some easy ways they can, in order from easiest to implement to hardest to implement.

1. Instead of having students print out assignments and hand them in, just have them e-mail the assignment to the teacher. Really easy.
2. Have homework available online (as a PDF or text document, maybe.) Students can complete it on their computers and e-mail it to the teacher (see point 1.)
3. Instead of having students take notes in class, have the notes be available online. Not only does this save loads of paper, it frees up class time for discussion/reviewing homework/whatever teachers want to do.
4. Have students take tests on the computer (maybe through an online survey tool, or preferably through a dedicated test app.)
5. Put textbooks online for students to use at home and have cheap netbooks/tablets/laptops for students to access them at school. Could be expensive, but it saves a ton of paper.

The benefits of doing that? Many:

1. No paper used (environmental benefit.)
2. Students don’t have to carry as much around.
3. Huge savings on textbooks/ink/paper.

Sangkalan: eI have no teaching experience whatsoever so I don’t know if any of this would be practical. So that’s why my proposal should be called radical, even though it seems pretty sensible to me.

So there’s my $0.02. What do you think?