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This document presents excerpts from various sources over 200 years that express skepticism about new technologies used in education. The excerpts show how educators have historically doubted the usefulness of new technologies like paper, ink pens, ballpoint pens, calculators, computers, the internet, laptops, phones and questioned whether students should be allowed to use them for schoolwork. The final excerpt from 2015 questions what would have happened if educators had taken a more open approach to new technologies in education over the past 200+ years.
Whatif2
- 1. What if we’d listened?
- 2. Students today can't prepare bark to calculate their problems. They depend on their slates which are more expensive. What will they do when the slate is dropped and it breaks? They will be unable to write!
- 4. Students today depend on paper too much. They don't know how to write on a slate without getting chalk dust all over themselves. They can't clean a slate properly. What will they do when they run out of paper?
- 6. Students today depend too much on ink. They don't know how to use a pen knife to sharpen a pencil. Pen and ink will never replace the pencil.
- 7. National Association of American Teachers 1907
- 8. Students today depend on expensive fountain pens, they can no longer write with a straight pen. We parents must not allow children to wallow in such luxury to the detriment of learning to cope in the real business world which is not so extravagant!
- 10. Ballpoint pens will be the ruin of the country - students use these and then throw them away! Business and banks will never allow such expensive luxuries
- 11. US Federal Teachers meeting 1950
- 12. You can't let children use calculators on the test ... if you do that you wouldn't ever learn how to use the tables in the back of the book and the skill of interpolation to figure out your trig ratios
- 13. Secondary School Mathematics Teacher 1980
- 14. We can't let them use calculators in Year 7 - if we do they will not be able to multiple three digit numbers by 3 digit numbers ... what will they do when they do not have access to a calculator?
- 16. Why would you want the internet for school use? It's just a fad .. let them use the library.
- 17. Local Authority Support Officer 1995
- 18. Teachers will never use email.
- 19. Teacher on an LA committee 1996
- 20. Why would I want to put school stuff on the web? Who is going to look at it?
- 21. Governor in a secondary school 2005
- 22. Why are we talking about students having laptops in schools? I don't think that most parents will give their kids their old computer let alone buy them a new one
- 23. Teacher 2007
- 24. All phones, ipods and other electronic or mobile devices are banned in school and will be confiscated if being used in class.
- 25. The vast majority of schools' behaviour policy documents 2010-11
- 26. Section 550ZC (power to seize items found during search) ... apply to an item that ... is an electronic device ... the person who seized the item may examine any data or files on the device ... if the person has decided to return the item to its owner, retain it or dispose of it, the person may erase any data or files from the device.
- 27. The 2011 Education Act
- 29. Micheal Wilshaw, Head of Ofsted, 2015
- 30. What if we listened ...