Comments on: Computers Alone Can’t Bridge The Digital Gap http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/459 rants & resources from an open educator Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:42:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jay Pfaffman http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/459/comment-page-1#comment-508 Jay Pfaffman Thu, 03 Nov 2005 16:27:26 +0000 http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/459#comment-508 Yeah, that's true. In Argentina. Today. We've been saying that for at least 20 years. What's interesting to me is that I'm not sure it's true anymore. I remember being outraged 10 years ago about computers that sat in boxes for months because there was no one at the school who felt qualified to take the things out of the box, much less make them do something useful. For a time, having actual children touch computers was problematic for some for fear that they'd break them. I argued then that the real problem was that the computers would not get broken soon enough and wouldn't get replaced. The rest of my argument is <a href="http://learn.occ.utk.edu/node/87" rel="nofollow"> on my blog</a>. Yeah, that’s true. In Argentina. Today. We’ve been saying that for at least 20 years. What’s interesting to me is that I’m not sure it’s true anymore. I remember being outraged 10 years ago about computers that sat in boxes for months because there was no one at the school who felt qualified to take the things out of the box, much less make them do something useful. For a time, having actual children touch computers was problematic for some for fear that they’d break them. I argued then that the real problem was that the computers would not get broken soon enough and wouldn’t get replaced.

The rest of my argument is on my blog.

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