Prof. Benedetto Vertecchi, of Rome University and
founder of the International Laboratory for Experimental Pedagogy, sustains
that computers in schools are of no valid evolutionary impact upon the
education process. In support of his thesis he said:
“..you
know that I still remember when there were the 78’ slate discs? Then we passed
onto the 33’ vinyl, the flexible plastic 45’, the magnetic tapes, the CDs, till
the hard-disks and lately the Cloud. Imagine in a thirteen years scholar
journey, from the first year in elementary until the conclusion of high school
years, how many technological revolutions the students will witness and go
through? I believe that if we concentrate education on the use of digital
resources, we will commit the time and intelligence of our children in
apprenticeships that serve at nothing and destine them, along with our
civilization, to a rapid decadence”.
Following the same thread, Dr. Manfred Spitzer (German psychiatrist author of “Digital Madness. How new technology made us Stupid”);
while demonstrating that ‘New’ do not mean ‘Good’ explains that: “…computer to education is like a bicycle to
swimming.. By dragging a word with a finger from point A to point B over a
touch screen, I am computing the most superficial action one could do with a
word. Just reading and copying it is a much more complex operation, that help
capturing it mentally”.
The most significant paradox is that in the Wardorf
School in the Silicon Valley, mainly frequented by children whose parents are
managers working for the world’s most reputed icons of the digital ware
producers and web servers as Apple, Microsoft and Google; all digital means
were completely banned!
This is for your information, so you can decide what
is it that you wish for your children, your family and your country..
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