http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20030920/ap_on_hi_te/classroom_gadgets
If any segment of the population is gadget-happy it is teenagers, the greater part of whom are in school, particularly Secondary schooling. The "problems" such tools present educators are discussed in this article, along with some "remedial" measures which school systems are taking.
Yet in some measure there is a distubing resonance of the K-12 school system's habit of viewing everything which is different as a "problem". In fact, some consideration should be given to the degree to which these gadgets represent an new intellectual ecology, and should, therefore, become part of the curriculum rather than being seen as something to be resisted or suppressed.
I do not want to suggest this is simple, but I do want to suggest that attitudes often preclude possibilities -- which may, in the end, be simple, but should be far from satisfactory.
Posted by jho at September 23, 2003 12:00 PM