[Year 12 IT Apps] OT: Computer rollover

[Timmer-Arends]

> Remember when TV was the big bad wolf? Radio? Cars? Fire?

Yes....and it's a pity we seem to have forgotten it.

All technologies have a downside and as technology educators, I think we 
need to keep that in mind that we should be critical spruikers, not 
propagandists for the technology pushers.

YouTube could well be the greatest thing in education since calculators, but 
it can also deliver a mindful of sickness that developing minds (or even 
adult minds) just don't need to be contaminated with. Simple black/while 
arguments about any technology are not going to lead to any real resolution 
of any issue.

I agree with Stephen insofar as we need to keep firmly in front of us our 
purpose as educators: ultimately it is to educate children, not entertain 
them. If they are entertained along the way to being educated so much the 
better; if they are educated along the way to being entertained then we 
should be running a cinema or a game shop; and if they are simply being 
entertained then we are wasting our time.

Regards
Robert T-A
Brighton SC