Schools without computers

Children Silicon Valley employees learn without tablets and noutbukov.Tehnichesky director of eBay to send their children to school without computers. So did the staff and other giants Valley: Google, Apple, Yahoo, Hewlett-Packard. It called the school - Waldorf of the Peninsula. It has a very simple old-fashioned kind - board with colored chalk, bookshelves with encyclopedias, wooden desks with notebooks and pencils. To train it using the usual, non-advanced technology tools: pens, pencils, sewing needles, sometimes even clay, and others. And not a single computer. Not a single screen. Their use is prohibited in classrooms and at home is not encouraged.

Students of Class 2, standing in a circle, the teacher repeated the poem while playing with a bag filled with beans. The purpose of this exercise - to synchronize the body and brain.







Last Tuesday in 5th grade children on wooden knitting needles small samples of hair, restoring knitting skills obtained in the lower grades. This kind of activity, according to the school helps develop the ability to solve complex problems, organize information, be considered, as well as develops coordination.

And this at a time when all over the world hurry to the school to equip their classrooms with computers, and many politicians say, what not to do this - is just silly. Interestingly, the opposite view is widespread in the heart of the high-tech economy, where some parents and teachers make it clear: the school and the computers are not compatible.

Proponents of training without IT believe that computers inhibit creative thinking, mobility, human relationships and care. These parents believe that when it is really necessary to acquaint the children with the latest technology, they will always be required to do the necessary skills and opportunities at home.







Paul Thomas, a former teacher and professor at Furman University, who has written 12 books on educational methods in public institutions, says that the educational process better if computers are used as little as possible. "Education - is first and foremost a human experience, to gain experience, - says Paul Thomas. - Technology only a distraction when you need literacy, numeracy and critical thinking ».

When supporters of computers equipped classrooms argue that computer literacy is needed to confront the challenges of our time, parents who believe that computers are not needed, are surprised: why rush when it's all so easy to learn? "It's super easy. This is about the same as to learn how to brush your teeth, - says Mr. Eagle, a member of Silicon Valley. - In places like Google and we do technology so stupidly simple as possible. I see no reason why the child can not master them, when it becomes older ».

The students themselves do not consider themselves deprived high technology. They occasionally watch movies, play computer games. Children say that even disappointed when they see their parents or relatives, enmeshed in different devices.

Orad Kamkar, 11, said he recently went to visit cousins ​​and found himself surrounded by five men, who were playing with their gadgets, ignoring him and each other any attention. He had to shake each of them by the hand and said, "Hey, guys, I'm here!»





via oum.ru/