Video: Where employees from Google, Apple, Yahoo, Hewlett-Packard teach their children
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
EBay's CTO sent his kids to school without computers. Employees of other giants of Silicon Valley did the same: Google, Apple, Yahoo, Hewlett-Packard.
Here's what smart people are doing while the rest of the world is on the hook for tablets and smartphones and hooks up their kids:
This school is called - Waldorf of the Peninsula. It has a very simple old-fashioned look - blackboards with crayons, bookshelves with encyclopedias, wooden desks with notebooks and pencils. For learning in it, they use the usual tools that are not connected with the latest technologies: pens, pencils, sewing needles, sometimes even clay, etc. And not a single computer. Not a single screen. Their use is prohibited in classrooms and discouraged at home.
Students in grade 2, standing in a circle, repeated the poem after the teacher, while playing with a bag filled with beans. The purpose of this exercise is to synchronize the body and brain.
Last Tuesday, in grade 5, children knitted small wool samples on wooden knitting needles, restoring the knitting skills they learned in elementary school. This type of activity, according to the school, helps to develop the ability to solve complex problems, structure information, count, and also develops coordination.
And this at a time when schools around the world are in a hurry to equip their classrooms with computers, and many politicians declare that it is simply stupid not to do this. Interestingly, the opposite point of view has become widespread in the very center of the high-tech economy, where some parents and educators make it clear that the school and computers are not compatible.
Adherents of IT-free learning believe that computers inhibit creativity, mobility, human relationships, and attentiveness. These parents believe that when they really need to introduce their children to the latest technology, they will always have the skills and capabilities required to do so at home.
Paul Thomas, a former teacher and professor at Furman University, who has written 12 books on educational practices in government institutions, argues that the educational process is best if computers are used as little as possible. “Education is, first of all, a human experience, an experience,” says Paul Thomas. "Technology only distracts when you need literacy, numeracy, and the ability to think critically."
When proponents of equipping classrooms with computers argue that computer literacy is necessary to face the challenges of our time, parents who believe that computers are not needed are surprised: why rush when it’s so easy to learn? “It's super easy. It's about the same as learning how to brush your teeth, says Mr. Eagle, a Silicon Valley employee. “At Google and places like that, we make technology as dumb as possible. I see no reason why a child will not be able to master them when he gets older."
The students themselves do not consider themselves to be deprived of high technologies. They watch movies from time to time, play computer games. Children say they are even disappointed when they see their parents or relatives entangled in different devices.
Orad Kamkar, 11, said that he recently went to visit his cousins and was surrounded by five people who played with their gadgets, not paying any attention to him and each other. He had to shake each of them by the hand with the words: "Hey guys, I'm here!"
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