[etni] Re: [FWD: is this legal??]

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You could see this as an unfair burden. But then you could also think of 
this as a sign that (maybe) some exciting changes will finally come to the 
Israeli school system. See the below link.



No more pencils, no more books; pilot project tries new era of teaching

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/540723.html

Haaretz, Yuval Azoulay



"The pencil cases of students in class 5-G at the Torah-science school in 
Yavneh contain a single pencil and an eraser. "It's for English, because 
we're not yet studying it on computer," explains one student, Liron Ohayon.



As it turns out, the English teacher just can't get used to the new system. 
Liron and his 23 classmates study all the rest of their subjects on laptops, 
one per child. No papers, no textbooks, no notebooks, no copying from the 
blackboard. Whatever their teacher, Ezri Mehatzri, wants to transmit to the 
students he does over the network, at the touch of a button. All the 
students have to do is open the appropriate file.



5-G is one of five classes throughout the country selected by the Davidson 
Institute of Science Education at the Weizmann Institute of Science to 
participate in a pilot project, in which they will continue using their 
laptops through the 12th grade.



On this particular Sunday morning, Mehatzri was teaching Gemara, with the 
part of the lesson that he wanted to discuss marked in color. "It's a 
challenge to teach Judaism with a computer. The student's experience is 
completely different. If the students are having a difficult time with a 
portion of Gemara, the computer can help clarify things. It makes the lesson 
much easier," Mehatzri says ..." (full text

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/540723.html)



Tom


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> From: "Ruth Sheffer" <ruti044@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Need some help guys. Our principal notified our English
> department  today that we are to participate in a pilot
> project of using internet for  homework assignments.
> Is it legal for him to require us to do this without
> any extra remuneration. I'm guessing this is going to
> require us to do a  lot of extra work in terms of reporting
> results etc ,judging by the  document we were given.
> what does the Etni community think??
> Ruth
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