Upon reading "What Would Socrates Say?" Peter W. Cookson Jr. is diving into the topic of the internet and computers and how they affect and change us in so many ways. His argument is about schools and how they need to change to figure in with the new technology. This is the same argument that we have been studying but now it is about the school system.
Cookson believes that the school system needs to change drastically to adapt to the way young adults now learn. That is, through computer based curriculum's. "Just as the the industrial age developed a particular for of organizational life, the electronic age is developing models of organizational life that are more atomic in their structure than they are brick and mortar"
(Cookson 7). He puts forth a model called "LearningSphere" that he thinks is the new way of teaching and learning in the 21st century. This idea is up for debate, and the change over would be a drastic transition.
-Adam D.
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Your summary is well written. You strayed away from putting your own thoughts into it and you accurately portrayed Cookson's views. I think that you could have elaborated a little more and explained the quote you used but other than that I think it's well done.
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