Hear hear. My kids are teenagers and even now I’m hesitant to give them their own gadgets rather than family shared ones. How can a parent control ‘gadget time’ vs ‘outside/fresh air time’.

Won’t it increase tension within the family?

Something else to argue over and have to set rules? And how will tablets increase literacy? Isn’t literacy about reading and writing? Will they then have their matsecs on the tablet? They’d forget how to write properly by that time.

The only advantage I can see is only if all their heavy books are available as ebooks to avoid carrying such heavy bags to and from school which is creating an aching-back/bent spine generation. And even then, a kindle would suffice.

There’s still so much more to do in the education area without introducing tablets and giving parents and teachers more headaches.

The real difficulty is the quality of the pupils. After long years and the investment of millions of Euro in education, we still have a significant proportion of students leaving school and graduating from university, but who are completely unable to work out for themselves the inconsistencies and ineptitude of the Labour Party and what passes for its policies.

Spoken like one who’s scared of a future we can’t avoid.

What you mention will be the constraints outlined by Claudio Grech. There is such a thing as concept development.

The dean of engineering reminded me why university is in such a state yesterday. Do I remember tutorial sheets dated 1971 handed out from the Gestetner in 1990.

If our august institutions won’t be led to believe in the students’ potential, describing them as an obstacle to research, who will?

Who does he think, will carry out the research anyway? His assistants slaving away at some obscure paper to be mulled over for ages, desperately trying to make it fit industry’s complex requirements?

I wouldn’t bet he’s one to consider collaborating with other faculties to joint hybrid research, not with his black leathers on a red tie. Matrix unloaded.

Meantime below is what’s going on, this year’s solar decathlon winner. They’ve managed to marry technology to its fundamental mission, morph into something else, that we can live with.

This, in my opinion, is the PN’s challenge, understand that we’re capable of doing it ourselves. It could very well symbolise the whole electoral program, a design.

But we need those students to carry it to unexplored possibilities. They’ll be the first to embrace how the solar panels, rudimentary zinc coated boxes in collective imagination, were made texture. 5:00 onwards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p28tFxd9MZY

That could be our roof terrace. The ‘panels’ creating the space instead of occupying it. All the details add up to zero emissions.

Betts says he won’t. Nor will a Roderick Galdes, let alone an Astrid Vella, both intent on hijacking policy.

This is precisely what Joseph Muscat believes his pledge actually is: a toy, not the shift to an e-learning platform the Nationalist pledge is.

Both parties would do better to use that money to solve the core issues with education, i.e. the quality of teachers at schools and the fact that our university is just there for lecturing and dishing out degrees.