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Technology In Primary Education, Boon Or Bane?
code_rage writes "This article in the San Francisco Chronicle attacks the zealous use of computers in grade school. In a time of teacher layoffs, San Francisco schools are buying 450 new computers with federal and state grants. The effects on education go beyond the initial costs: educational methods are suffering, as children are learning PowerPoint and teachers are becoming unpaid SysAdmins and content censors. This article is a well-written and brief update to Cliff Stoll's book High Tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom." Update: 12/01 00:40 GMT by T : Ooops II-- "Classroom" is now correctly spelled.
At my school we have Pentium 4's - but then people started to play games on them (we use Windows 98 either, so nothing stopping people from installing software).
So they underclocked them so people can't play games any more.
Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classsroom
...and why dictionaries do.
It goes from God, to Jerry, to me.
2. Spend $1 million on computers
3. ??????
4. Education!
"Are you on some kind of medication?"
"No"
"Well, you should be."
--Bean