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PEA and Beyond
Dear David:
I was intrigued about the future you so creatively developed
in the December/January issue of Learning & Leading with Technology.
This picture is most fascinating, and I feel that you are on target. Students
like Saundri will find that they can best be served when their education co-exists
with their lives. All too often in the past, students have been subjected to
courses that do not supplement their lives.
The personal education assistant (PEA) is possibly the best reason
to hope that our educational system becomes truly interactive. Saundri (and
her contemporaries) uses the resource to make her learning up-to-date and most
certainly personal. In the past, it has been difficult to personalize education.
I was also happy that she has the input from her classmates and her teachers.
The contact with students and teachers is important. Although this contact is
in cyberspace, she still has the opportunity to discuss and submit her work
to all those involved in her education.
Your picture of the future is certainly most positive and exciting.
Let’s hope that by 2016 all will be well with the world.
By the way, in 2016 I will be 68 years old and, I hope, retired.
My only hope is that those entering the profession will see the impact this
picture has on their peers and their students.
P.S. I am glad that you didn’t call the personal education
assistant “PEA-Brain.”
Ken Zelasko (Kenneth_W._Zelasko@interact.ccsd.net)
English Teacher, Durango High School and Community College of Southern Nevada
Las Vegas
(by e-mail)
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