OzMick Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Lets hope those textbooks for teaching English aren't the Thai produced ones containing a plethora of errors. Not knocking Thailand for the sake of it. Simply stating a fact. And therein lies the advantage. It is much easier to provide a software fix, then it is to reprint books. School districts pay a small fortune for textbooks, One of the reasons out of date texts are still used by many districts all over the world is that the districts cannot afford to change the texts every two or so years. This is particulalry acute in the sciences. I would have been delighted to have had a tablet as a kid, instead of being obliged to lug around 10-20kgs of books. Have a look at school kids today, some of them can barely carry their backpacks. I'm just curious, GK, and am fascinated to know more.... How many lessons per day did you have in school that meant 20kg of reading and reference material were necessary to carry round? Or did you just keep your past-reading archive in your bag, year-on-year? early onset Alzheimer's? Nearly (?) all my daughter's texts were cheap one-use and dispose. With the data stored electonically, they could be upgraded every year at very little cost, if any. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buchholz Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 . In yesterday's announcement that they were issuing 600 tablets to a few selected schools, it was very revealing in a poll of the parents and teachers attached to those schools that 94.1% disagreed with providing tablets to the 1st graders. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whybother Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Tablet PC Plan under fire again ... in the Bangkok Post. So they've distributed 600 tablets now. Out of the 11,000,000 initially promised, those numbers are worse than even the abysmal 1,000,000 Thai Elite Cards scam. . What's more, they have delivered 600 tablets to 500 people. Posted with Thaivisa App http://apps.thaivisa.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparebox2 Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Tablets is the equipment needed to hold back Thais learning abilities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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