Article Summary and Thoughts

"The Overdominance of Computers"

-The article made a great point that too much access to computers can cause children/students to lose focus on their homework and assignments. While it is true that we must prepare our students for a world that will be ran by technology, "...But we don't prepare children for an automobile-dependent society by finding ways for 10-year-olds to drive cars, or prepare people to use alcohol respnsible by teaching them how to drink when they are 6."(Monke 20)

-The article reminded me of the classic line from "Spiderman" the movie, "with great power comes great responsobility." Before students ever begin doing many of the wonderous things that can be done through use of computers, they must learn essential values through one-on-one contact with real live humans. The article argues that students shouldn't be given so much access at an age where there's so much to learn (good stuff but mostly bad stuff), on the internet. I remember when I first went to Dzantikiheeni during it's ingaugral year, there were macs in every classroom and while it was pretty cool to have such better access to the interent compared to that which we had at Marie Drake, my friends and I spent most of our time trying to downolad neudie pics without the teacher catching us.

-Students must learn to associate themselves with the physical world before they completely involve themselves with cyber space. People aren't connecting with people in the physical realm anymore, and the interent is the reason for this. The largest lesson students learn while attending school is how to handle themselves in public and how to get along with eachother. We have to lay the foundation of sharing and being nice for our students before we let them run wild on the internet where they don't have any social norms to abide by.