Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

The posts (for this and the student version) are this late in the afternoon because there was a hiring board meeting as soon as I arrived in school earlier, and I had two classes back to back immediately afterwards.

For the first meeting of my Computer Circuit Fundamentals lecture class for the second week of the second term, I didn't continue with the history of the computer as I promised the other time, because of a slight mouth condition I was experiencing. Besides, that could just as easily be a reading assignment.

Instead I continued with the discussion of the registers for the assembly language programming.

Now, I believe in the power of memory making it more recommendable for the students to copy from the board instead of being given handouts, either electronic or paper, as it is also character building to be that disciplined (except for a certain student I know) but the fact was that it took them two thirds of the class period to copy one board full.

That only left me the rest of the time to explain what I had written, then it was too late for me to write down the rest (probably the last one fourth) of the registers.

Now, next meeting I could just give them the rest of the registers on the board again, or I could just give it to them in a handout and proceed with the next part of the lecture, hopefully so we could start programming already.

This is the compromise that has to come from either spending too much time on decidedly preliminary topics, or insisting on not using the advantages of modern technology in teaching. Or maybe classrooms really are obsolete already, as computers can replace teachers.

The jury, in my opinion, is still out on that one. Too many distractions for immature minds on the unfettered net for one thing.

Or can education really be successfully patterned after popular games to maintain the attention and retention of youngsters these days?

Session 1317 wants virtual interaction. Class dismissed.