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Books overboard
Jul 12th 2011, 11:40 by D.T. | SEOUL
WHEN school textbooks make the headlines in East Asia, they are usually cast as bystanders to some intractable old dispute, and related demands that children be taught “correct” history. Thankfully though, future-minded officials in South Korea have given cause for this correspondent to write about something altogether different: by 2015, all of the country’s dead-tree textbooks will be phased out, in favour of learning materials carried on tablet computers and other devices.
The cost of setting up the network will be $2.1 billion. It is hoped that cutting out printing costs will go some way towards compensating for this expenditure. Environmentalists will of course be pleased, regardless. A cloud network will be set up to host digital copies of all existing textbooks, and to give students the (possibly unwelcome) ability to access materials at any time, via iPads, smartphones, netbooks, and even Stone-Age PCs. Kids will need to come up with a new range of excuses for not doing their homework: the family dog cannot be blamed for eating a computer, nor can a file hosted on a cloud network be left behind on a bus.
The education ministry also plans to use the network to offer online classes for children who are too ill to attend school. Given this country’s utter obsession with education—driven by parents’ fear that their children will “fall behind” unless morning, noon and night are spent studying—it is perhaps not surprising that even the ability to pull an occasional sickie is now being cut out.
Within the context of this relentless drive for learning, and South Korea’s reputation as a nation of gadget-lovers, the government could even be accused of being slow to catch on. According to Choi Young-soo of WeaversMind, a maker of picture-based vocabulary-memorisation devices, paper-free learning is already commonplace in private classrooms. He should know: though his start-up only started up in 2009, it is on course to sell $8m worth of English-language-learning gizmos this year.
Mr Choi talks of the prevailing “mood between parents, students, and government” which regards interactive, tech-based learning as the way of the future. It is an attractive picture, and one that is already prompting editorials lauding Korean educational culture from abroad. Those watching this country’s academic success with envy though—from Barack Obama on down—would do well to remember that not everything about South Korean education is worth copying.
- a person who is present at an event or incident but does not take part."water cannons were turned on marchers and innocent bystanders alike"
adv.
Over or as if over the side of a boat or ship.
idiom:go overboard
- To go to extremes, especially as a result of enthusiasm.
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