[ale] Planned obsolescence / Computers for Schools

[Chris Fowler]

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.