At Waldorf School in Silicon Valley, Technology Can Wait - NYTimes.com
I can’t really decide how I feel about this. On the one hand I totally agree that a lot of schools are over doing it to add technology when it’s not really necessary. But going the opposite seems just as silly. Why can’t I learn fractions with cake AND use a computer at the same time?
One of the parents who works at google says, “At Google and all these places, we make technology as brain-dead easy to use as possible. There’s no reason why kids can’t figure it out when they get older.” That sentence just makes me feel uneasy. Maybe it’s the idea that all they have to do is learn how to consume it, not create something interesting or creative with it. Or to be critical of it. I can’t imagine someone saying “we make drawing as brain-dead easy possible. There’s no reason why kids can’t figure it out when they get older.” I just sort of feel like it’s helpful to be able to experiment with technology as a medium, especially when they’re full of imaginative ideas. Going to elementary school in the early 90’s we didn’t have tons of computer time, but I still remember a lot of the stuff we did with them.. I can’t say the same for most of the other classwork.
