Hello everyone! :)
Since our group was done with reading our book, we were given to read an awesome article called "The Fun They All Had" written by Isaac Asimov! All four of us (Shelly, Sky, Tudor, and I) had the same job which was to summarize this short story/article. This is my summary + what I really think about the article! :)
This article took place in the future but people also talked about the past. There was one girl called Margie. She was nice but she hated school. Margie had a grandpa who told her that stories were once printed on paper and there were teachers that were humans! Well it's easy for us to believe that humans were teachers because they really our at this time but for Margie's time, robots took over education. There was also one boy called Tommy who said that writing 'real' books that look like the books we have today is a waste. Tommy, and so as Margie, thought that only machines were smart and that humans were stupid. I can bet that some people would even get offended if they heard this. Logically...we are pretty smart since we are the ones who actually made the machines and robots. Margie however, still hated school even if it was real school we all go to, or a robot that just gives you homework and 'nice or bad comments about your work. She said that school is a waste of time in life and that it's stupid. When her grandpa told her that he found a book about school - this was her response. "School? What's there to write about school? I hate school...it's boring" Not so nice of her to say that but that's just her opinion about it. The mechanical teacher/robot was giving her tests all the time and there was more and more of them every week. Margie failed every time because she was bored of school and to me, it seemed like she was bored of life. She only liked computers, robots, and all the other machines. I guess that if you're surrounded by machines and robots who tell you what to do every day, you don't socialize that well. When Margie's robot broke, she was fully hoping that the man who tried to fix the robot would not succeed so she has free time. When the man fixed it, Margie was pretty sad. My impression of Margie till now is that she has no inspiration in life except robots. When Margie said she hates school and doesn't understand at all why would anybody in this world like to write about school, Tommy replied "Because it's not like our kind of school. That school people wrote about was centuries ago!" This sentence tells us that they are definitely in future, far away. Just later in the day, Tommy was trying to explain to Margie that a men really can be a teacher and that Margie should learn more about the past if she wants to have this conversation with him. Margie was totally confused and still couldn't believe that a man was teaching some students the same thing. Margie had no idea what a class looked like, if there is one person in the classroom or if there are more. She also had no idea that kids went to a different building to learn instead of staying at home. The way Margie,Tommy,and all the other kids from the future learn is really similar to home-school except a robot did everything not a human teacher.
After all this time, Margie got interested in school and the past. She got inspiration which means she also got better grades. She asked Tommy to read the book about school, that she said she hated so much, after school. Well at least after the robot tells her what's for homework and that she's free. I was really surprised by the fact Margie was actually willing to learn something new...about school! Wow that really did surprise me. Margie finally got the idea of why Tommy and her grandpa though the school i the old time, before, was good. She thought about the fun they all had playing together in the backyard on the breaks, working together, making friends, laughing in classes and having real teachers with real feelings that would actually give you a great comment with an expression! Margie wished she could go back in time and try learning in our schools. Of course, she still liked the robots way but the public school sounded much more interesting for her now than they were before.
After reading this article and also discussing about it in class with Ms. Stanisic, I realized how the school helps you socialize in life. Only with robots, you'd most likely not have any friends or not so many friends in life since you have nowhere to meet them. I'm imagining that robot way of learning but I'm actually pretty grateful for what I have in this school - Great friends, awesome teachers, fun projects and experiments, and much more. If I was to choose between ISB or any other 'normal' school and the robots that teach you everything, I'd definitely choose ISB. It's only my opinion though. You as a reader, can have a total different opinion but it really doesn't matter. Everybody's different and that's what makes us humans unique. If we were programmed/robots, we would have no feelings at all and have no social life. Imagine a world without friends...so lonely, dark, and sad, isn't it? This article was pretty interesting and I think that all of this could possibly happen in ten or fifteen years..if people are willing to pay for everything, Except if the government is paying for the robots which would be much easier. Now I have a question for you. What do you think about the different ways of educating the kids and what do you prefer: Ordinary school or robots? Feel free to say it in a comment! :)
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