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OP here... Exactly. My concern is that 11, 12, 13 year olds need a lot of editorial guidance, mentoring and teachers who are truly fluent with technology to do
by tomek_zemla 9y ago
OP here... Exactly. My concern is that 11, 12, 13 year olds need a lot of editorial guidance, mentoring and teachers who are truly fluent with technology to do more useful activities and less useless or downright harmful on their devices.
18 year old can (usually) figure out how to use Internet and technology in general to improve themselves and advance their education. Small kids not so much...
- jaclaz 9y agoRight. The (wrong) idea is that the tool (tablet/laptop) by sheer magic can replace guidance, if you prefer it is a form of lazyness by the teachers and/or the parents that assume that the kids will not do what they are better at (which is of course playing) 80-90% of the time (and use it for school work for the bare minimum 10-20% actually needed to get a decent vote). Under some guidance I find the tablet or laptop an exceptionally good tool, but it is just a tool, so in itself its usage without appropriate programs and mentoring it can become worse than useless, an additional means of distraction.