Reply #9: I'm very skeptical about introducing computers that much in the classroom. [View All]

[LoZoccolo]

Really they're tools - it's like learning to use a typewriter or a fax machine - it doesn't really teach you how to think all that much. Maybe a little bit of algorithms added to the math curriculum would be an interesting addition that would teach kids about the nature of what computers actually do, but I don't see as much value coming out of computers generally than I do more traditional curriculum.

There's a book about this that got me thinking this way:
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=17-0385489765-0

Something I do think would be really great is media literacy. Learn how to evaluate information, know when people are playing with statistics, be aware that everything you see through the media is constructed, etcetera.