Know people LEARN better when we read 'hard copy,' and WRITE? I'm really concerned for my grandkids, 18 months, 9 months, and to be born in 6 months.

In my town, there's fund drives every year to collect pencils, notebooks, and crayons for school children who can't afford them. Where's the money for all these other things coming from? I'd donate for Lego though.

I use paint, chalk, pencil, ink, metal, plastic, wood, glass, paper (loads of paper of all kinds, sizes).
It's my livelihood.

All my real knowledge comes from books, and I find sources like wiki to be incredibly shallow (every sentence has 5 links to other shallow articles, never to a root explanation) and almost instantly forgettable. Esp. in the math sciences.

I use computers to play games, to do quick lookups of info, some shopping, downloading movies, etc., but find it very very limiting if I try to use it for design, sketching, thinking on the move, for which I *need* to breathe in the world, to get inspiration from my physical space. From my intensifying connection with my physical space, as my work gels and progresses. If I wanted to mass produce some project that I've done I'd no doubt input the design and directions into a computer, get some company to manufacture the product, but I've never done anything creative, from scratch, on a computer, except gfx and level-building work on computer games.

I find it absolutely necessary that I have the mental patterns in place to do quick mental arithmetic.

The microsoft shill is totally wrong-headed.

As a teacher I agree with the article but... When I ask students to blog or respond on our Facebook page or to take notes on phone they argue and complain. I do find that power points on a projection screen is no different than whiteboard or chalkboard. It is still a lecture. I try all technology in the classroom but it is hard. I use websites and ask students to download and they want hard copy. To them own and paper notes are easy. It is changing in classroom but slowly.

is helpful to brain development.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/memory-medic/201303/why-writing-hand-could-make-you-smarter

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/science/whats-lost-as-handwriting-fades.html

As for the rest? When someone asks me what I want in my classroom, I'll tell them this, after I get over the shock:

Flexible work stations; I like the node desk/chairs on wheels that can be arranged easily into multiple configurations at a moment's notice, have room for stuff, tablet/laptop, and even attached white board.

Tablet/laptop/chromebook for each student.

Smartboard. Some smaller white boards on wheels.

Books...thousands of them, hard copy and digital versions.

And...students with both strong keyboarding and handwriting skills.

is completely wired and has gone digital. our school has a great for all the electronics and it's pretty cool. All students receive a Google Chrome book, faculty get a Dell laptop. We use the Canvas system, similar to Blackboard. I still use my chalkboard daily, but most of the kids take notes on the laptops on don't take them at all. It can be very challenging to teach with a room full of electronics. Between the laptop and cellphones, lots of YouTube is watched. It pretty cool, at the same time it's a curse having a wired school. About a 25% on any given class does not have internet access at home and to get to a McDonalds or some other establishment that offers free wifi is pretty tough. Homework is often a challenge for all the kids…..Still having access to movies, museums, instant art (Show them the Pieta, Moses, David in Florence or other Renaissance art work in real time is pretty amazing. I do a lot with the digital classroom but the dinosaur I am, still uses tons of chalk and daily wishes for a white board…..