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To: epicure who wrote (175479)11/6/2011 8:46:42 PM
From: ChinuSFO  Respond to of 541673
 
Computers ok? Not in Silicon Valley
Matt Richtel
November 7, 2011

A school plugs into low-tech learning.

THE CHIEF technology officer of eBay sends his children to a nine-classroom school in Los Altos, California. So do employees of Silicon Valley giants like Google, Apple, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard.

But the school's chief teaching tools are anything but high-tech: pens and paper, knitting needles and, occasionally, mud. Not a computer to be found. They are not allowed in the classroom, and the school even frowns on their use at home.

Read more: smh.com.au