Post by Chris_Wendt on Mar 23, 2014 7:20:44 GMT -5
Garden City Waldorf School Goes "NO-TECH"!
I found this article well worth the read, all the way through.
In many respects, Wantagh has been at the forefront of deploying educational technology. I do not see how we could have resisted; we of course, did not resist. Any times we have not been at the forefront were largely the result of budgetary constraints rather than lack of impetus or desire to have more and better technology and to make better use of technology, especially in the curriculum and course catalogs down through the years. Wantagh's early adoption tendencies for technology put us outside the "sweet spot" for timely adoption of some later-evolving technologies, as our older equipment and programs still had to be paid-for and still had not reached the ends of their useful lives when new stuff came along.
In considering the article, what struck me is that "technology" in today's culture, seems very much to exist for its own glorification and much less as a servant to improve man's understanding of himself, of other people, and of the world in which we all must live, necessarily together, but not necessarily "connected" 24x7.
I learned computer programming and operations on an IBM Mainframe in college, 1965. Sixteen years later, the PC came on the scene (1981).
I remember going on a 4-day summer retreat at IBM Pallisades with the rest of the Wantagh Board of Ed and ADMINs in the early nineties, where we were immersed in something called a "network" and all manner of educational and school business software programs, and had the latest IBM PC's in our rooms, to "play with" in the evenings. A network! We could not have imagined what that was going to be like! Amazing!
Chris Wendt
I found this article well worth the read, all the way through.
In many respects, Wantagh has been at the forefront of deploying educational technology. I do not see how we could have resisted; we of course, did not resist. Any times we have not been at the forefront were largely the result of budgetary constraints rather than lack of impetus or desire to have more and better technology and to make better use of technology, especially in the curriculum and course catalogs down through the years. Wantagh's early adoption tendencies for technology put us outside the "sweet spot" for timely adoption of some later-evolving technologies, as our older equipment and programs still had to be paid-for and still had not reached the ends of their useful lives when new stuff came along.
In considering the article, what struck me is that "technology" in today's culture, seems very much to exist for its own glorification and much less as a servant to improve man's understanding of himself, of other people, and of the world in which we all must live, necessarily together, but not necessarily "connected" 24x7.
I learned computer programming and operations on an IBM Mainframe in college, 1965. Sixteen years later, the PC came on the scene (1981).
I remember going on a 4-day summer retreat at IBM Pallisades with the rest of the Wantagh Board of Ed and ADMINs in the early nineties, where we were immersed in something called a "network" and all manner of educational and school business software programs, and had the latest IBM PC's in our rooms, to "play with" in the evenings. A network! We could not have imagined what that was going to be like! Amazing!
Chris Wendt