08/01/2016
Some educational technology proponents argue for gamification, in which all forms of learning are turned into games – video games, of course, when it involves digital tools. But imagine a system in which students go through K-12 learning via video games. Even if they learn the required science and history, they will graduate without knowing how to learn anything not embedded in a game. In other words, they will have not learned the most important lesson of a good education – how to be self-motivated learners who can learn new things on their own.
https://blogs.worldbank.org/education/hypocrisy-developed-world-educational-technology-proponents
Increasingly, there is a curious trend in America in which the country’s wealthiest, best-educated, most tech-savvy parents work hard and pay good money to keep their children away from digital technology. For example, executives at companies like Google and eBay send their children to a Waldorf sch…
