What's wrong? well, it used to be that you wanted to please the customer. But now all companies want to do is please shareholders, and that means PROFITS!
There should not be an age requirement on anything, but rather a maturity requirement. In a perfect society, the society would judge the individual's maturity level, sort of like the coming of age in indian tribes. After you had passed certain tests you were a man and a full member of the tribe.
Patrick Stewart is jsut great in any role that requires demonstrating a higher aura. But throw in Darth Maul (I forget the actor's name, he is playing toad) and you have got a great movie.
But it was the first time a major commercial OS company for desktops had used unix as their base, barring BE. But you are right, it was an incremental development, IMHO this guy is a pissed off mac user, who has his proctologist examine his head.
Clifford Stoll, a self proclaimed "hi-tech heretic" has written a book by that same name, and he discusses the problems with having computers in the classroom.
I agree with Cliff, in the sense that learning takes place when a student absorbs knowledge from a book, paper or teacher. Anything that distracts from that communication (ie computers, tv, purty pictures, other students, etc.) is an obstruction to learning and should not be there.
I was Homeschooled, and had a computer in the "Classroom" from the age of 11 onwards. I can tell you that I learned much more useful information from reading than I ever did from the computer or TV or Internet.
Computers are a tool just like a calculator, they don't help you learn, they help you get work done. They are an intellectual crutch, or stepstool, which ever you like. When a child's mind is still growing, you shouldn't give him a crutch, but let him reach as far as he can without it, and when he can go no farther, give him the stepping stool.
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What's wrong? well, it used to be that you wanted to please the customer. But now all companies want to do is please shareholders, and that means PROFITS!
There should not be an age requirement on anything, but rather a maturity requirement. In a perfect society, the society would judge the individual's maturity level, sort of like the coming of age in indian tribes. After you had passed certain tests you were a man and a full member of the tribe.
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Patrick Stewart is jsut great in any role that requires demonstrating a higher aura. But throw in Darth Maul (I forget the actor's name, he is playing toad) and you have got a great movie.
But it was the first time a major commercial OS company for desktops had used unix as their base, barring BE. But you are right, it was an incremental development, IMHO this guy is a pissed off mac user, who has his proctologist examine his head.
Clifford Stoll, a self proclaimed "hi-tech heretic" has written a book by that same name, and he discusses the problems with having computers in the classroom.
I agree with Cliff, in the sense that learning takes place when a student absorbs knowledge from a book, paper or teacher. Anything that distracts from that communication (ie computers, tv, purty pictures, other students, etc.) is an obstruction to learning and should not be there.
I was Homeschooled, and had a computer in the "Classroom" from the age of 11 onwards. I can tell you that I learned much more useful information from reading than I ever did from the computer or TV or Internet.
Computers are a tool just like a calculator, they don't help you learn, they help you get work done. They are an intellectual crutch, or stepstool, which ever you like. When a child's mind is still growing, you shouldn't give him a crutch, but let him reach as far as he can without it, and when he can go no farther, give him the stepping stool.
I've got an even better Idea! Let's use just a plain substitution cipher. oh wait, that was cracked 1500 years ago!
That is an appeal to the masses and the worst fallacy that Aristottle ever catalogued. Get a Life.