Hi Laura,
Children all over Sweden are getting ipads, ruggardized from the school districts. They are 240 x 170 mm, and apple has done a very good job of convincing education officials that this is where the 'computer literacy' money should be spent.
I think the public attitude to computers and education (all over the world) is crazy.
You don't _need_ computers for education. Computers are extremely overrated concerning school education in my personal view.
It is useful to have some "computer literacy", but compared with literacy itself: many orders of magnitude difference in usefulness, so actually the word 'computer literacy' is an exaggeration in itself.
In Germany they just published a study, showing that we are "far behind" Canada and many other OECD-states regarding computer-use in schools. No journalist even questioned the general assumption that this is necessarily a bad thing the public should get hysterical about. I also haven't heard about German engineers being lo-tech because they weren't allowed to look up everything in wikipedia when they went to school.
But the marketing of the Big Money Firms in IT-industry will pay off some time. Hey, lets burn lots of money for more computers in school - sounds GREAT.
Crazy... Christian _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
