Paloth opened this issue on Sep 18, 2007 · 86 posts
wolf359 posted Thu, 20 September 2007 at 6:14 PM
"Noooo, don't give our children the junk of the past. Computers in schools should be the very best, especially for the youngest students. And renewed regularly, they need the very best tools, both for learning and to develop high order thinking skills, aging PCs don't deliver those."
So a 1.8 GHZ Mac G5 or equivalent Dell workstation that has been declared "Obsolete" by the righteous Pontificators of the "bleeding edge" is going to impede my 12 year Old son's ability to develop his "thinking skills"???
Faster & multicore UBER CPU's have NOTHING to do with critical thinking
and learning. and never have
Is anyone really getting "smarter" or even more creative because of faster computers ???
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