THE FUN THEY HAD
About the author : Isaac Asimov is the author of this lesson. He was born in Russia on January 2, 1920. He was an associate professor of biochemistry at Boston University School of Medicine. He was also known for writing books about science fiction, mathematics, religions and literature.
The theme of this lesson : Now a days students don't like to go to school. Better they want to sit home and study their portions. Basically, they don't like teachers but have a love for e-learning. But in this lesson, the author speaks about the difficulties of the students who have a machine as a teacher in their life. Characters : Margie - 11 years old Mrs Jones - Margie's Mother Tommy - 13 years old Margie's grandfather |
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BY THE END OF THE LESSON, STUDENT SHALL BE ABLE TO:
- Read, write and speak English correctly.
- Enrich the vocabulary to use the same correctly.
- Understand the difficult words and phrases in the lesson.
- Acquaint a scientific story.
- Identify the difference between Human teachers and Robotic teachers.
- Analyze the variety of Modern Teaching aid.
READ THE STORY
In the year 2157 the thirteen-year-old Tommy finds an old book. Margie, who is eleven, find it strange that the words on paper do not move after having been read. Nowadays they only read stories on the computer screen. The book is about school centuries ago. Margie is very surprised that in the past pupils had a person as a teacher and that all children of the same age learnt the same thing and went to a school house with other children. Margie wants to read more of the book but first she has to learn with her machine teacher whose level is too advanced for her and she thinks school in those days was much better than today. School in the future will be very bad. School nowadays is very good and the pupils have much fun. For example in line 18 Margie says: "I hate school." And in the last two lines there is written: "Margie was thinking about how the kids must have loved it in the old days." I also think that school nowadays is better than in the story. In future the school as described by Asimov the social aspect is lost. There are no forms anymore. Everybody sits in front of his computer and the pupils cannot learn together because every child learns different things. But school today is not as good and funny as Margie thinks. Almost nobody today would say that he likes school. And there are many problems like forms with too many pupils. But I think regular teachers cannot be the solution.
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