The article didn’t say, but what’s their stance on children listening to music?
Especially since the primary playback devices tend to be cellphones, PCs, tablets and games consoles…
Vinyl or GTFO.
I think it’s an interesting experiment and I’m curious to see how it turns out. I couldn’t tell you whether it’s a good or a bad idea, but I kind of like the idea that somewhere in the world are some kids who are growing up “the old-fashioned way.”
And yeah, simply due to my age I grew up without computers or the internet as a kid, and I never had any trouble with computer/internet skills when I needed them in college and beyond.
[del]Wax cylinders[/del] Live chamber music or GTFO.
I thought the correct plural was “Commodores 64”, like “Attorneys-General” or “Courts-Martial.”
Vinyl is too mainstream 2015.
It needs to be 8-track or nothing! Now someone pass me a PBR, ironically. 
Not using computers in the classroom is not the same thing as banning them at home. Ditto movies. It appears to them paintings of poker playing dogs are allowed but watch “Our Town” on TV is not.
They seem to still have the snooty “vast wasteland” mentality decades after it was valid.
Computer literacy no longer means ability to program. When I taught CS 101 in 1979 I taught Pl/1. When my daughter took it the only thing resembling programming she got was fill-in-the-blank Javascript. It was mostly html, ftp, stuff like that.
It is just like woodworking. While my woodworking shop class was fun, unless it is a profession or a major hobby done for enjoyment most people will do better buying not making.
Commodore was the company, and there was only one of them, so the s should be after 64.
I was writing stories by fourth grade - a word processor of my own would have been great. Not just ease of typing - it could teach revision and self-editing, which is the hard part of writing.
I think it would be easier to catch plagiarism in young kids, and they could be subject to much milder punishments than high schoolers or college students. Actually getting caught is more instructive than thinking you might get caught.
When I was in high school I had to go down to the main library for research. You used the Encyclopedia, you used the Guide to Periodical Literature, in NY you used the Times index, and you saw what was on the shelf. Good web research - which must be taught - is harder and makes you more sophisticated. Anything in a library is probably a reasonable source, but learning to do web research should force you to exercise more critical judgement.
Let’s teach our kids to get info from the CDC not from some anti-vax hack. And let’s do it before college.
People have been saying things along these lines for decades about homeschooled children, and virtually all of them turn out just fine.
The reasoning is that they’re hippies, no more, no less. It’s just the one Cape Town Waldorf school that does this, the others are much more bourgeois.
Oh, I knew that. bThe schools aren’t all like that NZ one, though - the local one is too hippie to be racist. Quite the opposite.
Sounds like a cult to me.
Rudolf Steiner also “gave a series of eight lectures in Germany in 1924, which became the essential bible of biodynamics” - “the best way to think of it would be as a magic spell cast over an entire farm”
[QUOTE=Rudolf Steiner]
But the people that didn’t develop their id, that was too exposed to the influence of the sun, they were like plants: They produced far too much carbon under their skin – and became black. That is why the negroes are black.
[/QUOTE]
Hand me my science bat.
This seems pretty extreme . . .
. . . on the other hand, I find the current panic about making sure kids are immersed in technology throughout their education so they will “know how to function and succeed in the modern world” to be just as off the wall.
Every moment spent using one tool for work or play is a moment not spent using a different tool. Why is the choice to use tools other than television or the internet so obviously wrong? What makes the screen so obviously the right and better tool for living happy and successful lives?
My current go-to newborn gift is a case of diapers and a “baby’s first cellphone” toy.