[ale] Planned obsolescence / Computers for Schools

[Richard Bronosky]

I was raised by a single mother/used car salesman/bar tender in a
public housing complex. The difference between me and all of our
neighbors: My mother told me "The secret to success in America is: Get
all the free education you can. Learn to speak like someone people
want to hire. Don't get anyone pregnant." Their mothers told them that
they can't escape poverty because everyone wants to keep them down. We
all lived up to our mothers' expectations.

We all have choices in our behavior. The most important choice we make
is what we teach our children.

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:47 PM, m-aaron-r <aaron at pd.org> wrote:
>
> On 2010/07/26, at 18:20 , Richard Bronosky wrote:
>> I think those professors discovered an age old phenomenon: The rich
>> keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer, because they
>> each keep doing the behaviors that make them that way. Of course there
>> are exceptions. As far as generalities are concerned, that's a pretty
>> reliable one.
>
> With the acknowledgment that the rich are much more likely to have
> choices in their behavior. Much harder to be involved with your child's
> education when you have to work 2 or three jobs just to keep them
> housed and fed.
>
> peace
> aaron
>
>
>
>
>>
>> On 7/26/10, Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
>>> On 07/26/2010 12:09 PM, 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Studies seem to support your concern:
>>>
>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/21/digital_divide_worsened_by_tech/
>>>
>>> Jim.
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