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Subject: Are you kidding?
Posted By: Dan Reynolds
Date: February 09, 1999 at 16:33:31

No, absolutely no! Computers cannot replace textbooks. Computers are a tool. They are a means to an end, they are not THE END. Computers don't have answers they can help us find and formulate the answers but they aren't the answers themselves.
Few new medias have totally replaced older medias. Writing didn't eliminate speaking. Television didn't eliminate radio (though they said it would). New technologies, new medias give us new tools to work with. The object of education is to teach how to use the tools. Not to have the tools control us.
Yes, computers will change education. In some areas they will enhance, in some areas they will be a total waste (i.e. kill & drill). If education can change its paradigms and realize that this thing called computers and technology is just a tool and teach them as such we'll be okay.

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Re: Are you kidding? Steve, February 19, 1999 (0)
Re: Are you kidding? Mark R. Jones, February 10, 1999 (2)
- Re: Are you kidding? Rick Faircloth, February 11, 1999 (1)
  - Re: Are you kidding? William L. Rukeyser, February 16, 1999 (0)

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* Comments: > No, absolutely no! Computers cannot replace textbooks. Computers are a tool. They are a means to an end, they are not THE END. Computers don't have answers they can help us find and formulate the answers but they aren't the answers themselves. > Few new medias have totally replaced older medias. Writing didn't eliminate speaking. Television didn't eliminate radio (though they said it would). New technologies, new medias give us new tools to work with. The object of education is to teach how to use the tools. Not to have the tools control us. > Yes, computers will change education. In some areas they will enhance, in some areas they will be a total waste (i.e. kill & drill). If education can change its paradigms and realize that this thing called computers and technology is just a tool and teach them as such we'll be okay.