Schools Using Technology or Not.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/technology/at-waldorf-school-in-silicon-valley-technology-can-wait.html
The New york times article about the school in Silicon Valley that does not use technology brings up some interesting points about teaching kids. Hands on techniques and interactions with your peers and teachers are very important when it comes to learning, but I dont think that it means that technology cant help the learning experience. Yes technology is a distraction and many things can be done very easy without it, but with certain aspects it helps engage students more into what they are doing. Cutting up food is a good way to capture children's interests in what they are doing, but when math becomes as advanced as trigonometry and calculus, theres nothing you can really do besides write it all out on a chalkboard and ask kids questions, which hardly has any power to really engage any of the kids. But when you do these things out on a computer, even though its the same uninteresting stuff, its implemented through a medium that kids are more familiar and comfortable with, so it cant help but have the effect of pulling kids into it more. There are some things technology cant replace, and there are some things that are hardly effective without, so I believe the right thing to do is promote moderation, give the kids the social interaction they need and enhance what you need to with technology.