I think it's more of a neomania problem. New and shiny equals better. Now "IT" is thought to be good, and lecture rooms are getting "digitalized". Where digita

I think it's more of a neomania problem. New and shiny equals better. Now "IT" is thought to be good, and lecture rooms are getting "digitalized". Where digitalization means something horrible, using tablets and slides (which will encourage shallow thinking and distraction). That's at least the trend now in some elite schools I attended more than a decade ago. In contrast, when I went to a (pretty forward thinking) kindergarden in the late 80s, we were taught Logo. During early elementary school I vividly remember how recursion blew our minds. From any possible point of view, the same school had a much more avant-garde education 25 years ago. Now try to convince policy makers. Same applies to CS schools. I was lucky enough to be taught Prolog, Smalltalk and ML during freshman year. We emphasized concepts over technologies. Now it's the other way round.