Sunday, October 23, 2011

Think different?

This is a very interesting article "A Silicon Valley School That Doesn’t Compute" , that  publish the NY times. In one point said that computers kills childs creativity. I dont belive that computers kills creativity on childrens. I think in this case could apply what I call the Think Different effect. If it is true that much of children attending these schools came from parents who work in Silicon Valley (where it produces much of the technology and applications we use) are certainly more exposed to computer and tecnological themes, that others children's.  To be fair the article never said that all children that goes to Waldorf schools have tecnological parents. But if hints that al childrens that goes to Waldorf School of the Peninsula, came from tecnological parents ( the first line say " The chief technology officer of eBay sends his children to a nine-classroom school here. So do employees of Silicon Valley giants like Google, Apple, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard") , so let keep the article firts line. Let's think that all childrens of this schools are geeks sons that came from a technological enviroment. To get away from them they will find it entertaining not uses computers, but not for a boy attends class regularly and reads a book with little or no visual stimulation, while listening to a teacher giving a monologue as a class. The reality is that everything is that done to extremes, is wrong. Let's thinks different, really different when we talk about education. Pluralism and inclusion is what kids need in schools. A diverse and comprehensive education that enables children gets exposed  to many experiences as possible, that allow them acquire and develop their skills. Check this image titled The absurdity education educational system of schools.


The teacher said to his students: "to be fair, all will have to perform the same test : everyone Will Have to Climb That tree".





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