Will Computers Replace Human Teachers?
1. Computers are cold impersonal1 devices and they relate to children as though they are machineswithout love, care, or feeling.
2. Children who use computers will learn to communicate with machines instead of people. There is a risk we will create a generation of social illiterates2. There is some truth to the stereotypicalcomputer nerd.
3. Teacher-directed learning is underpinned3 by personal awareness4 and a focus on students. IT-directed focus is impersonal.
4. Within a class of 25 children, there may be 25 variables. These variables are understood by teachers but not by computer-generated and controlled programs.
5. Classroom teachers become aware of student learning difficulties and foibles.
6. Computers present programs that can not be accommodated. Personalized shifts do not happen.
7. Computer-generated learning places all students in the group onto the same program, at the same point, progressing them as a collective. Inpidual differences are not recognized.
8. Having a teacher in the classroom posesmany opportunities for the students to learn lifes basics.
9. Having physical teachers in the classrooms is advantageous5 because they can teach personal interaction, reading, and teamwork. And computer cannot teach these things.
10. There can be confusionbetween reality and fantasy, between fact and myth
Problems Probably Confronting a freshman
Possible Problems:
1. Psychological problems such as loneliness, homesickness and inadaptability.
2. Language problems such as inability to understand the local dialect.
3. Local foods disagreeable to ones taste.
4. Can not adapt to the climatevery well.
Suggested Solutions:
1. A college orientationsession should be held to familiarizethe freshmen6 with the exciting school life.
2. Some special advisory7 and consultativecommittees should be established to meet the psychological needs of the new students.
3. Seniors students should be called on to offer help to their new younger schoolfellows.
4. Different kinds of foods and accommodation should be available to students from different places and backgrounds.
5. Some campus activities involving new and old students participation8 should be organized to familiarizethe new with the campus life, such as a welcome party to be held by the school authorities.
6. Fresh should try to be independent and self-reliant.
7. Keep regular emotional contacts with ones family members and former classmates.
8. Active participationin the campus life is essential to removing loneliness and disorientation.
Pocket Money
1. Help the children understand the value of money and how to use the money responsibly.
2. The money parents give help the children learn to manage money, and they can understand how budgeting, saving and interest work. In this way, they can develop wise spending habits.
3. It helps raisea money-savvy child.
4. Cultivatea spirit of independence and learning to make decision on ones own.
5. Such goal-setting helps children learn to become responsible for themselves.
6. Children are willing learners, and you will find by giving pocket money, you can get them very interested in whole process of building a healthy saving for the future.
7. Young children especially enjoy watching the money build up in their piggybanks, and they love to take it out and count it. This is a great opportunity to teach your child the different denominationsin our currency, and what each coin and bill is worth.
8. It is the beast way to introduce your child to the concept of saving.
