Comments on: Yay or Nay? Your Thoughts About Technology in Schools http://www.decaturmetro.com/2011/12/02/yay-or-nay-your-feelings-about-technology-in-schools/ Decatur Georgia News, Events, Atlanta News Mon, 15 Sep 2014 16:32:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: SML http://www.decaturmetro.com/2011/12/02/yay-or-nay-your-feelings-about-technology-in-schools/#comment-166248 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 03:28:04 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=21255#comment-166248 It is disturbing to see how much technology is taking over the lives of young people. It’s the primary thing that excites them, motivates them, and captures their complete and undivided attention. Students have learned to multi-task, which according to many studies, is not necessarily a good thing. They end up not doing anything well. Given the amount of time children spend engaged in technology every day, their school hours are better spent learning life skills – critical and flexible thinking, discernment, conflict resolution, empathy, resilience, perseverance, etc. As a Waldorf parent of three boys, I want my children to get an education from teachers, not from computers!

]]> By: At Home in Decatur http://www.decaturmetro.com/2011/12/02/yay-or-nay-your-feelings-about-technology-in-schools/#comment-162987 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:13:37 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=21255#comment-162987 +1 for “Software and the machines that run it are a flavor of the month. Knowledge (which is brought forth from within the individual) continues to deepen over a lifetime.”

]]> By: Scott http://www.decaturmetro.com/2011/12/02/yay-or-nay-your-feelings-about-technology-in-schools/#comment-162981 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:55:14 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=21255#comment-162981 “I agree with RScott in that we have a much larger problem in this world: our kids do not know how to talk to each other or communicate effectively.”

I think it’s more complicated than this. We live in a time-competitive world so, in many cases, a key strength of effective communications is brevity. We also live in a world where our tools of communication are fluid. To treat certain tools (such as a traditional phone call) as eternal is to become painfully inefficient in short order because part of effective communications is reaching people where they are. Kids text because that’s become the most effective way of reaching each other and exchanging information. To say that’s not communicating effectively misses a large part of what effective communications entails.

Note I’m not touching on the subject of dumbing down communications to the point that we may be losing our ability to discuss complex ideas (a la 1984). That’s a whole different problem and one on which we probably agree.

]]> By: Decatur Metro http://www.decaturmetro.com/2011/12/02/yay-or-nay-your-feelings-about-technology-in-schools/#comment-162971 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:44:44 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=21255#comment-162971 I wonder if it’s actually making communicative children less communicative or whether it’s making less communicative children more communicative. If it’s doing both, is it a wash?

]]> By: unclecharlie http://www.decaturmetro.com/2011/12/02/yay-or-nay-your-feelings-about-technology-in-schools/#comment-162967 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:09:08 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=21255#comment-162967 Not exactly on topic but exciting in any case — The Kindezi School in the West End is an Atlanta Public Charter School that has 6 students per class and almost no administration.

http://www.kindezi.org/

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