The Computer Delusion

I am going to have to agree with the article in saying that computers are not everything in teaching. Computers may help students by keeping them engaged in school but they are no substitute for the real thing. The article states that Tom Henning, a physics teacher at Thurgood Marshall worries that when students use the computer, they are not applying themselves fully in the process of thought and that the computers only stimulate the senses of sight and hearing. So much money gets put into getting computers and programs to help out the students, but do they really work?

In short, the article says that they don't. Computer programs don't really offer much in terms of learning. They do however offer excitement for the students as they love to play games on them. Education comes second when they are on the computer. Test scores have not gone up in districts that acquire computers and teaching programs are being cut in order to keep this computer delusion going. It is also interesting to say that this article, although quite old in terms of technological advance, shows that technology in the classroom has been an issue in schools for at least a decade already and is still debated today.