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On 11/11/11 15:35, Tony Sumner wrote:
Thank you Tony. I love this. My daughter, who is creative, uses a computer at home for social connections and research for her A-level Chemistry and Biology. She hates IT as it has been taught. Some students use them to use machines that cut to a plan. Otherwise, I suspect that it is the model of education as preparation for work rather than life that drives the use of computers plus the illusion that more and better technology shows a school as more modern and up to date and therefore better.The school, which enrols children of parents from Google, Apple, Yahoo, ebay, and Hewlett-Packard, is the Waldorf School of the Peninsula, one of around 160 Waldorf schools in the country that subscribe to a teaching philosophy focused on physical activity and learning through creative, hands-on tasks. Those who endorse this approach say computers inhibit creative thinking, movement, human interaction, and attention spans.... The schoolâs chief teaching tools are anything but high-tech: pens and paper, knitting needles and, occasionally, mud. Not a computer to be found. No screens at all. They are not allowed in the classroom, and the school even frowns on their use at home.
It is essential to research University courses and to apply to University via UCAS however. This is all computerized.
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