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I'm 50. I learned to use punch cards in high school. Technology evolves rapidly, and the skills you learn are going to be obsolete in no time. You don't need to learn a particular skill in grade school to do a job when you get out of college. [b]You need to learn to learn. [/b][/quote]

OK. How does limiting the use of current technology encourage learning to learn?[/quote]

What most kids are getting from technology in school is not challenging stuff -- they're learning how to look something up on Wikipedia or how to make a Keynote presentation. It's easy, it's fun, and they're inclined to do it anyway. What they need is to be encouraged to learn to do things that are hard for them, things that they're uncomfortable with and that require them to be careful while following instructions.

I'm sorry about the person whose father is having a hard trouble learning to use a device, but I wonder if technology is being blamed for a greater sort of inflexibility, like doctors who don't want to follow a protocol because they are used to doing things a certain way and they want everyone to trust their judgment. My kids' peds office has switched to devices, and none of it looks very challenging. They're just typing stuff in instead of putting notes on a chart. [/quote]

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