In response to President Obama’s proposal to connect every classroom and use software that will enable every teacher to know what every student is thinking at all times, Michael Fiorillo has another idea:
“I applaud President Obama’s desire for oversight of young people’s brains, but his proposal doesn’t go nearly far enough.
“My edu-venture will remedy the shortcomings of bio-exterior technology, and guarantee a miraculous solution to the achievement gap.
“My super-miniaturized wifi receivers, combined with my patented KiddieChipsFirst technology, will allow Pearson to download its tests and product placements directly into the cerebrums of our most valuable assets, and allow our developing human capital to upload their responses, so that remotely-sited “teachers know what is going on in the student’s brains.”
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Imagine if we actually looked at the children, talked and listened to them and got to know each student as an individual…….so old fashioned….so status quo.
Every stupid idea proposed by these powerful know nothings displays how little they understand about teaching and learning.
I always look forward to Michael’s comments.
Check out the description of Feed, a young adult novel by M. T. Anderson: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0763662623 A student recommended it to me quite a while ago. It’s a good read!
“KiddieChipsFirst” – once again Michael, you made me laugh out loud.
This is a great idea what are we waiting for. Must be military technology as that is where it all comes from in the Net Centric World. Now we do not need schools or teachers. Think about the profit now when we do this. Implement now.
Well and didn’t Obama just say he wants every child in America to have Broadband access? Now he can just satellite link every kid’s brain directly. Bam… two birds with one stone. Who says government ain’t efficient?
Sounds like a sure winner, Michael. When’s the IPO?
Sorry, Robert, but my venture angels (Bill, Eli, Mike Milken, etc.) own a big piece already, and certain preferred customers (Wendy and Hubby, Mike and Dave, Eva, Michele, among others) are receiving courtesy shares.
Contact The Squid to see if you can buy what’s left, while supplies last.
Well, if you had any doubts about exactly how clueless President Obama is about education, this comment about knowing, hour by hour, what’s in students’ brains should settle the matter for you. These are people who think that knowledge and understanding can be put into a simple list, like a set of bullet points on a PowerPoint slide.
Now, THAT’S funny! 😀
And Robert Shepherd is right!
And imagine the money we’ll save from the NSA budget when they no longer need the phone data they are currently mining. As each child grows and becomes an adult, they will have the real time ability to monitor not only all phone calls, texts and emails, but private conversations and, with any luck, our very thoughts. This will actually save money and should be very popular with the budget hawks and national security types as well as the education industrial complex folks!
From a Luddite, this was hilarious.
This is Logan’s Run all over again, now “implanted” into public education. Michael’s piece would be great satire if it did not have such a seminal kernel in it. . . . 200 years from now, will this be the case?
Robert, your comment reminds me of something Randall Jarrell wrote, that ours is the time when parody is impossible because so much of our political life is more absurd than any parody could be
Robert, you’re right.
But “parody” or “theater of the absurd”, if any of it comes true, it will harder to undo.