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Technology in Schools
from the Clifford-Stoll-strikes-again dept
Clifford Stoll, who most recently wrote High Tech Heretic talks with the NY Times about why he's not a big fan of computers in schools. Lots of people tend to call Stoll a luddite, but, while he is a bit odd, he does make some good points, and I think it's valuable to have someone like him to make sure we don't all believe our own hype. Of course, that doesn't mean he's right on everything he says...
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Who's missing the point
I figure there probably is a place for computers in schools, but to act as if it's somehow pre-ordaned is insulting. Stoll makes a lot of good points, especially about what the computer labs have replaced. Krueger rebuts this with more gung-ho hype. After all, 10,000 lemmings can't be wrong.
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