[ale] Planned obsolescence / Computers for Schools

[Pete Hardie]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:09, Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> 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.


perhaps the bets thing to do is provide laptops, but tell the kids
that they are forbidden to run anything other than the
brain-damaged learning applications.  In no time, we'll have the most
savvy bunch of hackers ever!



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Pete Hardie
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