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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’d argue at that time computers in schools was even more important. You had most assignments being typed by that point but you also didn’t have computers in every home. So you were expanding class divide by not providing access.