Re:Importance of computers in school (Score 1)

One of the fundamental problems about using computers to educated is that it is much harder to be a pro-active learner, since it removes the capacity to physically engage with the medium. Rather, students who learn on computers tend to be passive learners, receiving the information as just that - information, rather than ideas. Because they can't write on the medium, physically interact with it, they are passive: eyes open, they take in the information as from a television. Since the point of education is to teach the mind to actively and thoughtfully engage with ideas, not simply process information, computers as a pedagogical tool can be contrary to the true purpose of education.