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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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We had computer labs in my rural AB school in 1995, and computing courses were ubiquitous by 1997. The Y2K event is a fantastic reference illustrating the presence and dependence of computer technology in the 90s.
Only a dinosaur that was trying to prevent itself from going extinct would have thought the technology and the Internet weren't going to be a complete game changer in education.