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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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I graduated in 2000 as well. I used computers in my Alberta classrooms right from about grade 3 or 4 up until I graduated. Obviously we didn't use them everyday and we had a designated "computer lab" back in those days, but we definitely used them. To think I was using computers in the late 80s or early 90s in elementary school but she didn't think kids would need them a decade later in the early 2000s is laughable.
It was obvious to me as a high school student in the late 90s that the world was moving towards a computer/digital environment. She should have been able to see that in 2000.
I understand her perspective, and can see her points (which are the same points people make now about cell phones in the classroom) but she was still wrong. Not that it matters much now, because its over 20 years ago. But I guess it shows her lack of judgment and ability to see even the very near future were lacking even then.