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echo: educator
to: CARL BOGARDUS
from: DALE HILL
date: 1996-07-23 06:15:00
subject: Technology In Classroom

Hi Carl,
 
   I saw your reply to Charles and couldn't resist tossing in this 
quote I read just the other day.
 
CB>  CB> The computer as a tool for delivering curriculum still holds mu
CB>  CB> promise, but again, a lot will depend on the 
CB>  CB> ability of authors to write 
CB>  CB> good software that will both interest and challenge 
CB>  CB> our students - much 
CB>  CB> more needs to be done.
CB> Never will be very successful-in fact may be a waste of time. Studen
CB> really learn from computers as computers can only provide answers, (
CB> ones at that). Aren't the most important things in a person's educat
CB> questions? A large amount of money is being wasted on computer glitz
CB> never pan out as it isn't practical or possible economically. There 
CB> be the laptop containing an entire library or any of the other fanta
CB> given to computers.
CB>  
 
"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with
the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad 
that won't last out the year."
 
       -The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
 
Regards,
 
   Dale
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