Computers in School

At the violet hour, when the eyes and backTurn upward from the desk, when the human engine waitsLike a taxi throbbing waiting                                       T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land The U.S. education system…

By B.N. Frank Its dumb. Public school administrators and educators are still pushing for high tech curriculums when experts continue to warn against them and kids arent benefiting from them (see 1, 2, 3, 4).  Health warnings about exposure to Blue Light from…

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In a first grade classroom I visited a few years ago, most of the six-year-olds were using iPads or computers. They were working independently on math problems supposedly geared to their ability, while the teacher worked separately with a small group. I watch…

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For many years now Silicon Valley parents including Bill Gates and the late Steve Jobs have been sending their own kids to private low-tech or no-tech schools AND limiting their use of it in their homes while tech companies have been convincing everybody else…

At the end of every section in this article, you can read the text that an artificial intelligence predicted would come next. I glanced down at my left thumb, still resting on the Tab key. What have I done? Had my computer become my co-writer? That’s one sma…

Apple CEO Tim Cook laughs with President Donald Trump during a meeting in the White House, Washington, March 6, 2019. The federal government will determine in the next few months whether Apple will get a tariff exemption on its core products. It's a critica…

Part of the origin myth of modern computing is the story of a golden age in the 1960s and 1970s. In this story, visionary pioneers pursued a dream in which computers enabled powerful tools for thought, that is, tools to augment human intelligence E.g., Do…