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I wouldn't suggest any smartphones for schools, I'd have them removed at the door and given back at the end of the day, but that's probably because I have a lot

by ktizo 15y ago

I wouldn't suggest any smartphones for schools, I'd have them removed at the door and given back at the end of the day, but that's probably because I have a lot of sympathy with Cliff Stoll's views on computers in classrooms.

runako 15y ago
I get it. Rewriting your prior post for accuracy: How does having technology deployed to a school help educate people at all, regardless of things like platform fragmentation? :-)
- ktizo 15y ago
  No, cos then they wouldn't be allowed to teach writing, which is quite a fundamental technology for education. Is just that I view issuing smartphones or consumer tablets in a classroom to be about as useful and productive as issuing games consoles.
  - runako 15y ago
    Why do you need technology to teach writing? Many of us learned writing when the only electricity in the classroom powered the lights. Educational Luddism shouldn't favor subjects.
    - ktizo 15y ago
      Writing is a technology.