The school system of education is redundant

1. It was been scientifically proven that students can only retain about 10% of any particular lesson. Thus, using a teacher is a very inefficient method of learning. There should be at least a shadow curriculum which is solely computer based. This could be used for students who didn't attend school for a day or two and missed some classes. Students will not remember 90% of what they are taught in class, so the shadow computer learning could act as either a back-up or a primary learning tool. Each module could be used as a practice and revision tool. 2. For students that still don't understand a concept they could access a on-line help system which solves more difficult problems. 3. Some course units could be longer than 10 minutes depending on the subject matter. The videos would have many alternate division points which contain finer details and references. 4. I have found that by the time that assessments are made,using the current system, its already too late. The student has missed some vital information and has gotten behind the rest of the class and can't catch up. The computer system of learning would prevent this common system break-down and time delay problem. 5. Assessing a students performance on a daily basis is the only fair system. Term assessments are too slow and don't address immediate problems. A missed piece of information needs to be detected immediately and not found out one, two or three months later. 6. Quote - Tell me this. Name one TV program that you watched last night. Now state 10 things you remember about the show, including all the names of the characters? No cheating by using Tevo. Watching videos is a passive activity. No matter how detailed they are, much of the information is forgotten shortly after. That's why concepts are taught, reviewed and practiced, for understanding and retention. Reply - That's my point! You need to repeat each lesson about 10 times before a particular idea is fully understood. Thus, the education system can't afford to repeat each lesson 10 times. This is where the computer learning system excels in the area of repeat learning methodologies. Being in a class room of 30 students is a very passive environment also. What chance has a particular student got of getting the attention of a teacher in such a situation. In a 40 minute period of learning each student only has about 1 minute of attention time per student which is hopelessly inefficient and inadequate time period. 7. When I went to school I had some good teachers and some bad ones. The school system doesn't really weed out the bad teachers and they somehow manage to hang on to their jobs, regardless of how bad they are. The computer system would supply an alternative way to study. 8. Quote -"Teachers can show favouritism to certain students and give them better marks. The computer system is completely neutral and doesn't favour any students over others. " Reply - When I went to school I had an argument with an English teacher and she failed me as a result. Thus, some teachers can be nasty and unreliable to give accurate marks. 9. The computer system would be a government service and provided for free. There would be incentives to achieve good results. 10. Quote - While you and your spouse are at work, would you trust your child to sit home alone in front of a computer and stay on task with lessons? Video games anyone? Reply - The computers could be located in a school room which just has one supervisor for several classes using a monitor screen which has a view of around 10 class rooms. If any student misbehaves, the supervisor could send a warning message via an internal speaker system.