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Originally Posted by dpastern
1) If that is the case, how did English students survive before TV and Video (let alone DVD)?
2) same as with point 1) - how did advanced Maths students do Calculas before Calculators? Hell, Sir Isaac Newton managed it all 300 years ago!
3) Agreed. And Schools can, and should, ban them. If all schools ban mobiles, what will parents do? Don't give me any of this kid's safety BS or sexual predator BS. Kids for many years managed without mobile phones. Modern kids are lazy, technology driven beasts, and it's NOT healthy for them, nor society. We're seeing the tip of the iceberg now, in a 100 years it's going to be a LOT worse. It makes me glad that I've probably got 30-40 years left.
4) Many kids evade getting caught for plagiarism. Many teachers don't care. Again, kids survived for many years with computers and Internet. If they could do it then, then they can do it now. I guess I'm a bit like Giles in BTVS - computers aren't tangible. Books are. Call me old fashioned, but we're far too reliant on technology, especially children.
Obesity with children? Well, most parents are becoming too lazy to encourage their children to be active. Kids with Playstations, Wiis, Xboxes, TVs, Computers are becoming a plague. Parents too busy to cook decent meals, so they live on take away. There are reasons for this, and sadly, it's all derived from greed [and money].
As a society, we're broken.
Dave
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1) The whole purpose of education is to prepare young people to survive in the world they inherit. Removing a major component based on ideals is plain silly.
2) In his day there were about a dozen people capable of doing basic calculus. Things have moved on and now millions of people have the ability to contribute to human understanding through complex maths. If you trully hold this as a plausable argument the I suggest you switch off your computer go out the back and find a big flat piece of slate and start carving. If you read a little history on many of the greats you will find they all had one pet hate and that was repetative mindless number crunching. I am sure Newton would have jumped at the chance to use modern technology to help him solve problems.
3) Agreed.
4) Wish we had enough books to cover all we want the kids to learn but we don't. The internet is a necessary evil.
Mark