Computers as Tutors: Solving the Crisis in Education

by Frederick Bennett

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966958365
• ISBN13: 9780966958362
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Faben
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Interesting analysis of education methodologies

Dr. Bennett's review of the status quo in education and the need for drastic changes in teaching methods is compelling. While much has changed since this book was written in the late 1990's very little has changed in America's schools. Much of what Dr. Bennett has written is supported by current learning studies. Except for the most progressive and enlightened school systems, the future of education and the use of the most efficient teaching methods in the U.S. will not occur in the public schools. Generically speaking, our school system is broken and the entrenched interests will not willing change it. Even Bill Gates has come to recognize that there is no repairing the current system. It must be replaced with a system that accelerates learning and ignites the imagination of the student. There is no issue more important to the future of this generation.

Let's try this approach today!

Individual schooling was once the norm with small one-room schools. With increasing population, group teaching was needed to keep pace with the growth. Now, according to Dr. Bennett, we need a leap forward in education - use our new technology to return to individualized teaching. Computers as Tutors should be read by all educators and parents for applicability to their own situation. Why not try a pilot program - even for just one subject like math - in your own schools? After reading Dr. Bennett's research results, you will wonder why we have not taken this approach earlier. - The Science Spiders Newsletter

Welcome Maestro VIDMANI P !

GRASP by machine and MASTERY by human mentoring is author Bennett's thesis. Computers will be lesson teachers. Every learner will have own 'vidmanip' for lesson study solo. No more collectivist group study! No more daydreaming while the teacher lectures! No more undue peer pressures to contend with! Informational intake capacity will increase greatly. In communicational terms, one might say, listening to 'radio talk' has been switched to 'interactive television'. Electronic tutoring will facilitate learning to a point where failure in school will cease to be an issue. All students will be able to learn their lesson at a rate of speed best suited to their talents. Yet, achievement standards will be the highest. In fact, once adulthood has been reached, nobody will ever care whether knowledge on tap was learned rapidly or not so swiftly. Of course, accomplished lesson grasp will not suffice. Active lesson mastery musrt follow passive understanding. Narrowly defined new knowledge needs to be refined and generalized in order to mature. True education is more than acquisition of separate bits of information. Scholarship is incomplete without benefir of personal wisdom. Transition from lesson grasp to lesson mastery takes human mentoring. Pedagogic artistry is required. However, as Dr. Bennett makes quite clear, mentors act to facilitate, not to dominate. The old 'monkey do as monkey told' will be replaced by the joy and pride of learning which comes from . Sooner or later, our dysfunctional blackboard jungles will be replaced by user-friendly techno mentories. Finally, education, too, will have joined the Information Age.

Highly recommended!

Here is a book I found to be VERY informative! The author surprised me with his insight on WHY many teachers believe computers are no good in the classroom. Then he offers ways on HOW to make them, not only good in the classroom, but extremely helpful to the student! The author offers insight on what problems programmers and teachers have. Do not forget the advantages of the computer helping in the home as well! The computer can be a terrific mentor. Better than having a complete set of encyclopedias in the home. Computers can make learning more than simply reading pages in a book. Computers can make learning fun! In my opinion, parents who home school their children would highly benefit from reading this book as well. Even though it is more geared toward the school system problems with computers in the class. The author's point is clear on how we can make the education of our future leaders smarter than ever before, with the aid of computers! I cannot recommend this one highly enough!

A practical vision to improve education. A remarkable book.

"Computers as Tutors" goes way beyond just a discussion of how computers can help educate our children. It is an in-depth analysis of the restraints and constraints on our public education system as constituted today.Millions of dollars are being provided for computers and software to improve education; yet, up to now, results are minimal.Dr. Bennett's explanation of why this is so will open the eyes of any parent or educator that hasn't been extremely observant and diligently thoughtful about problems facing students and teachers.But the most notable aspect of the book is not its piercing analysis of what is wrong, but its practical vision for what can be done to eliminate many constraints on educating our children. Setting this book apart from others that are long on theory and short on application is a strategy using computers that has been proven in many schools in the United States. Point after point, Dr. Bennett indicates how computers can enable teachers to help every child learn far beyond what schools allow today. His points are concrete and logical, his solutions brilliant and attainable.If you read only one book on education this year, "Computers as Tutors" should be it.