Re: The kids are getting dumber....

macbri wrote: 
Much better to keep technology away from these kids at any cost!  Let
them learn with pieces of chalk and slate as our parents did!  Embrace
not the technical revolution that is only accelerating my luddite
friend.  Could you not find a wider brush for your broad strokes?

You might read the last line of said article and realise that books
aren't about to get thrown in the dumpster.  This technology is not
going away and I applaud the initiative displayed in this attempt to
harness it.  Sure it may not be a perfect idea, but by trying it,
refining it, ultimately maybe even rejecting it and then trying another
tack, progress might well be made.  What a concept.  But I'm sure
there's a lot to be said for sticking ones head in the sand.  Ostriches
do it, and they're progressing right?  Oh, wait...



How exactly would you expect an Ostrich to "progress"?

And, FWIW, it's the generation of chalk and slate that made science progress the most, except in the case of evolution where they fsked up.



--
Nicolas

"They're not manufacturing a specific product at that factory, they're manufacturing YOU."

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  • Re: The kids are getting dumber....
    ... Embrace not the technical revolution that is only accelerating my luddite friend. ... And, FWIW, it's the generation of chalk and slate that made science progress the most, except in the case of evolution where they fsked up. ...
    (comp.sys.mac.advocacy)
  • Re: Chalk board
    ... >slate thin enough for the weight to be acceptable while being thick ... slate doesn't actually work too well. ... "School chalk" is very soft and is optimised ...
    (rec.woodworking)
  • Re: OT: Going out of fashion
    ... of the class for the teacher to write on and everyone to read, or that children ever had individual blackboards to work on. ... Ah, I had a slate and a slate pencil. ... I suppose chalk would have worked too but the slate pencil was less messy than chalk. ...
    (uk.media.radio.archers)
  • Re: Writing with a pen&ink (was Re: OTM: Oddly non-ubiquitous skills)
    ... etc) most writing and nottaking was done with things like chalk on ... slate, or charcoal on stone, and "scratchpad" writing was done either ...
    (rec.arts.sf.written)