You can't do that via a TV screen. You can't sit in a dorm room and punch away at a machine all day long. The collective experience of students being part of a group and learning from each other has to be preserved, and it will take on different forms. Smellie spoke at a teleconference sponsored recently by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology. The teleconference was broadcast via satellite from Virginia Tech and Utah State to more than 100 sites throughout the United States and in Canada.
Good teachers have no fear of being replaced by technology. . . .
He called for an increased partnership between business and education to further implement technology into the nation's classrooms. The corporate world's interest in education stems from a worry about productivity and our nation's competitiveness in the world marketplace. Part of that will be the result of the internal information revolution . . . . Having an undereducated population in this world would be a serious national weakness. Blind professor finds independence in computer technology By Gina Ferolino Virgil Cook walks into his technical writing class, sets down his briefcase, and listens as his students happily chat away.