Re: The kids are getting dumber....

In article <sehix-2F19D3.14514220082005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve Hix <sehix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In article <1124526959.386651.266240@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> ineedyourluvin1@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >
> > The Kids are getting dumber.
> > By: Me ;-)
> >
> > Today being Saturday, the 20'th of August, I read
> > an article entitled "High school trades textbooks for laptops"
> > on cnn.com
> > http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/08/19/no.textbooks.ap/index.html.
> > This is no doubt a disturbing trend in public schools.
>
> Perhaps...for someone with no historical perspective whatsoever. Maybe.
>
> > Let us think
> > about this for a moment and we will begin to identify what
> > effect this will have on our kids in their future. In the past
> > there was the teacher and the students. The students would
> > bring with them their textbooks and school supplies which
> > consisted of notebooks, paper, pencils, pens, etc .
>
> So now, instead of bringing a stylus and clay to make tablets (jump
> ahead) ...papyrus scrolls to read (jump ahead) ...vellum codices to read
> (jump ahead) ...hard bound text book (jump again) ...perfect-bound
> softcover texbook...
>
> A laptop with all the texts installed as rtf/pdf/html files is nothing
> more than information in a different, and arguably more durable, format.
>
> If you have problems with the state of modern education (and there are
> more than enough problems therein to worry about), worry about the
> problems.
>
> Obsessing over a slightly different format for transmission of
> information is, quite seriously, a case of you barking up the wrong
> trees.

What concerns me is this:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/08/09/kutztown.hackers.ap/

Josh
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