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Computers in Education
By Carla Cooper and Evelia Ramirez
December 2006, University of California at Berkeley
www.consttutioncenter.org “Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments. Compulsory school attendance laws and the great expenditures for education both demonstrate our recognition of the importance of education to our democratic society. It is required in the performance of our most basic public responsibilities, even service in the armed forces. It is the very foundation of good citizenship. Today it is a principle instrument in awakening the child to cultural values, in preparing him for later professional training, and in helping him to adjust normally to his environment. In theses days, it is doubtful that any child may be reasonably expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. Such an opportunity, where the state has taken the opportunity to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms” (Warren, Earl 1954). http://m0sia.ru/gallery/computer/Harvard_Mark_I_Computer
As we approach 2007, computing has changed from pure equation processing technology, embodied by the MARK 1 at Harvard and the ENIAC at the University of Pennsylvania, to information processing technology. "To know... used to mean having information stored in ones memory. It now means the process of having access to information and knowing how to use it.” School boards and PTA’s once dictated what was necessary in the classroom. Now education experts and IT gurus set the bar. Use of computers combined with the internet make the distribution of information quick and equitable. Computers just make sense in the classroom. They improve higher order thinking skills and thereby fit in to the paradigm of the acquisition knowledge being cognitive. One teacher, Ikaika Plunkett of Kahuku High and Intermediate School in Hawaii, sums up the benefit of having his students complete their
By Carla Cooper and Evelia Ramirez
December 2006, University of California at Berkeley
www.consttutioncenter.org “Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments. Compulsory school attendance laws and the great expenditures for education both demonstrate our recognition of the importance of education to our democratic society. It is required in the performance of our most basic public responsibilities, even service in the armed forces. It is the very foundation of good citizenship. Today it is a principle instrument in awakening the child to cultural values, in preparing him for later professional training, and in helping him to adjust normally to his environment. In theses days, it is doubtful that any child may be reasonably expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. Such an opportunity, where the state has taken the opportunity to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms” (Warren, Earl 1954). http://m0sia.ru/gallery/computer/Harvard_Mark_I_Computer
As we approach 2007, computing has changed from pure equation processing technology, embodied by the MARK 1 at Harvard and the ENIAC at the University of Pennsylvania, to information processing technology. "To know... used to mean having information stored in ones memory. It now means the process of having access to information and knowing how to use it.” School boards and PTA’s once dictated what was necessary in the classroom. Now education experts and IT gurus set the bar. Use of computers combined with the internet make the distribution of information quick and equitable. Computers just make sense in the classroom. They improve higher order thinking skills and thereby fit in to the paradigm of the acquisition knowledge being cognitive. One teacher, Ikaika Plunkett of Kahuku High and Intermediate School in Hawaii, sums up the benefit of having his students complete their