[ale] Planned obsolescence / Computers for Schools

[William Fragakis]

Absent adult supervision, you would probably be correct.

One of the roles of teachers is to ensure the kids read Shakespeare not
just Us magazine. Same goes for computer usage.

Likewise, a pen can be used for graffiti or a poem (ignoring that some
graffiti are poems ;-) ). Again, the adults in an educational
environment provide that direction.

Teachers and students, given the proper tools, can do amazing things.
I've seen it.

regards,
William
(whose college computer education consisted of a shoe box of punch cards
that calculated a square root)



On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 12:09 -0400, Chris Fowler wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:24:21 -0400
> "Lightner, Jeff" <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
> 
> >  Maybe the
> > poster didn't go to school as far back as the late 70s but with the
> > rapid change and adoption of IT for home and business even saying it
> > should be the way it was just a few years ago at some random HS
> > doesn't make much sense to me.   
> 
> No 70s for me.  More like 80s.
> 
> My concern with computers are that they will not be used as a learning
> tool but instead a distraction.   When I was doing computers if you
> wanted the computer to do cool things then you had to make it do cools
> things by writing code.  Today there is so much distraction on the
> Internet.  
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