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To: Stitch who wrote (5915)	8/27/1998 9:42:00 AM
From: yard_man	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9980

Kind of harsh. I'm not a luddite, just don't worship technology. I'm not saying there hasn't been positive change, just that technology isn't the wonderful crowning achievement that many say it is. Look at education now. Here in the states, I think there has actually been a decline of sorts. Being able to learn and think critically has taken a backseat to learning technology, IMO. I look at the massive IT investment for grade schools and we are considering homeschooling our son. Kids learn how to learn from a teacher not an electronic box, IMO. More generally, are we better equipped to really understand one another culturally with all the "communication" technology? TV gives us summary sound bites which convey precious little of the reality or more than the political agenda of the money behind the network. I was talking with a relative who was excited about the prospects of the internet for her grade school kids doing research papers. I didn't even know where to start with her. Perhaps they've put all the written works for the past 500 years on some internet site and I haven't found it yet. I told her, the internet is the intellectual equivalent of junk food for the most part. Some resources exist that are educational, but that is not the bulk. I think this "put the kids on the net" to do their research, gives them the wrong idea about what research is, from the start. Research involves going to mutliple types of sources, reviewing information, thinking about the information and bringing it together for a purpose. It is not just clicking a series of hypertext links and printing out the results, IMO.