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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
Looking at the piece and thinking back to that time I don't necessarily think this is as extreme as it is made out to be in the Twitter post. I graduated high school in 2000 and computer literacy was really at a very early stage. At that time there wasn't much commercially available software that was easy to use and beneficial to young elementary school kids that would help with early learning. Based on that the argument that computers are not needed is pretty reasonable. Obviously the progression of technology and literacy exploded in the 2000s and the landscape was quite a bit different just a few years after this opinion piece was printed.
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IDK about that. I learned how to type properly pre-2000 in elementary school in Manitoba. We had a full classroom converted to a computer lab and 1 hour computer class every week. It was mostly typing and encarta encylopedia disks lol.
I look around at all the people my age who still hunt and peck and am thankful that my small town school was forward looking enough and had the budget to teach us that skill.