Monday, February 23, 2009

Neat Article on Technology

It's about the use of technology as a communication tool - and how it's quickly changing the face of interpersonal conversation.

This is relevant to parents of Haultain children, because a lot of our kids use .mp3 players, or are beginning to use cell phones to text each other.

Check out the article here, and feel free to comment. Your participation is appreciated.

2 comments:

  1. The technology article is highly pertinent to the process of education and bears thinking about.

    In past local and provincial elections, it was interesting to see how our representatives first checked their poll standing before commenting on anything: acting more like marketable products than representatives of their constituents.

    It seems one just has to add a little Blackberry to sweeten up some of the poor product we accept as governance.

    Just as the frozen foods in the supermarket never live up to the retouched imagery on the package, nor do electronically presented human images give us the intellectual nourishment we need.

    We are in danger of being fed education decided by the easily swayed.

    Already, we have seen the "dumbing down" of Canada's formerly proud CBC as Ravel has bowed to Rap on the drive-time shows.

    There is talk of the teaching of cursive writing being eliminated from some schools' curricula as "too time-consuming".

    In the United States, there is presently an action in the courts over certain racial groups being expected to pass a written test for promotion as firefighters.

    How will that turn out? I'll give you a comment after I have checked my Blackberry.

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  2. Thanks for the comment 'Himself'. Unfortunately I think we have been 'fed education ... by the easily swayed' for generations. Thus underscores the requirement for un-ending vigilance when it comes to our children's education, in our case, largely fulfilled by the Council.

    To paraphrase T. Jefferson: "The price of a quality education is eternal diligence."

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