In the short story “The Fun They Had” written by Issac Asimov” people are taught by machines rather than people. In the short story, Tommy finds an old book that belonged to his grandfather. As he turned the old, crinkly, yellow pages he went on to read about the school in his grandfather's day. As he was reading, he was comparing school now to school in the past and realized how different it was. Tommy found himself liking the old version of schooling and continues to hate his computer-based education. Although many people believe regular in-person education is better, I disagree. A computer-based education is better than a regular education because of the personalized education, starting anytime, and easy access all day, every day.
A computer-based education allows you to learn with a personalized education. With personalized education, everyone learns at their own pace and at their level. In the short story, “ The Fun They Had”, the author said, “ I’ve slowed it up to an average 10-year level”(page 6). With the personalized education system, the County Inspector was able to slow Margie’s education to an average 10-year level, because she was getting worse and worse at geography. If you’re failing, your
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In the short story, the author said, “It was always on at the same time every day except for Saturday and Sunday because her mother said little girls learned better if they learned at regular hours”(page 7). In this excerpt from the short story, Margie’s mama has set a time every day for her to do her schoolwork. Instead of that time being from 8 am - 3 pm like a normal school day used to be, it could be set from 1 pm - 3 pm and then 5 pm - 7 pm. In conclusion, having the ability to start your education whenever plays a key role in why a computer-based education is better than a regular