[ale] Planned obsolescence / Computers for Schools

[Jim Lynch]

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.