mentalbrew

Why create a title that contains a term you don't care for but then start your article with an apology for it? There was nothing stopping you from creating a better title... unless of course you actually wanted that title.

I didn't generalize to all technology and I didn't mean it to come across as so. I also learned a great deal having a computer when I was younger. It pushed me into areas I wouldn't have been interested in otherwise. The point I was trying to make is that technology gadgets like this often are assumed from the get-go to fix what I see as a non-technology problem. There doesn't seem to be much of a discussion on whether something is actually a solution sometimes and it's rather just assumed because it's a computer or gadget or whatever that this thing is going to fix that by the nature of what it is (new technology).

My old high school has more computers and technology equipment than it did when I was there yet overall the educational statistics are the same or worse. Technology is amoral, it's neither good nor bad, it's how it's implemented that makes the difference. Some view technology as a moral plus in that it is innately better than no technology at all. I disagree with this.

I can't say I'm terribly surprised by this report. Too many things that fall under the "technology" banner get pushed as somehow improving our quality of life by default. Like the existence of some gadget automatically improves things for the owner. Pushing a computer on children who are in many parts of the world learning in a building that is falling apart or has no real educational infrastructure is a waste.