Thanks ?to reader Linda for reminding me of this article in the New York Times about the school that Silicon Valley high-tech entrepreneurs choose for their own children. It is a Waldorf school. It has no computers.
The school has 196 students. Three-quarters of them are from high-tech families, deeply involved in the creation and design of computer technology.
But this school doesn?t believe that computers have a place in the classroom and it discourages their use at home:
This is the?Waldorf School of the Peninsula, one of around 160 Waldorf schools in the country that subscribe to a teaching philosophy focused on physical activity and learning through creative, hands-on tasks. Those who endorse this approach say computers inhibit creative thinking, movement, human interaction and attention spans.
I don?t want my readers who specialize in teaching technology to freak out. Just think about it.
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Source: http://dianeravitch.net/2012/07/16/what-no-computers/
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