Social discussion of CS in K-12

[Pattsi Petrie <pattsi2 AT gmail.com>]

Focus ought to be on how to improve living environment first. Second, the more I listen to TED talks, the more I am beginning to think this is the elongated version of the "elevator pitch."

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On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Charles Schultz <sacrophyte AT gmail.com> wrote:

Happy Friday, Shifters!

Just read a very relevant article about technology in education:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/06/04/technology-wont-fix-americas-neediest-schools-it-makes-bad-education-worse/

To balance this perspective out, I also watched Sugata Mitra's TED talk about how computers can help form groups of self-teaching children (he has several other TED talks that are actually quite amazing).

My take-away is that it is easy to be negative and point fingers, but there are amazing people doing amazing things all over the world. True, computers and technology are not a silver bullet nor a panacea, but I don't think true critical thinkers ever let that stop them. *grin*

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