[Year 12 IT Apps] OT: Computer rollover

[Charmaine Taylor]

Well said Robert.

Charmaine

Timmer-Arends wrote:

>> 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
>
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