Lowell Monke’s article “The Overdominance of Computers,” does more than take a critical look at the role of technology in the classroom. The author makes a strong argument for using the classroom, particularly at the elementary level, as a platform for increasing children’s internal and external capacities for human-based interaction. While quick to explain that technology should not be eliminated from today’s curriculum, the author argues that we must better understand our world and ourselves in order to better use the fruits (technologies from the mundane to the exotic) of our growing technological world. Furthermore, the greater the technology, the more removed we are from its tangible results, the greater the need for such understanding. Education can, and should, be a vehicle for such understanding.
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