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For Dreyfus what can be more human and creative than "slander, innuendo, and gossip"? For Sloan, who obviously doesn't have a grandson who sends him email, computer technology has to be emposed on adults not children. It is our children who love computers. I suppose Kay finds coloring, cutting, and pasting things of real importance?

It is cyberspace that gives me close apprenticeship to my students. It is the number in the classroom that produces anomynity. Then again, is it strong committment to the student or the subject that makes the best teacher?

The criticism that technology policies focus on developing children's logic too early drives an innate adult need to keep children encapsulated in fuzzy thinking and ignorance. On the contrary it is machine-like logic that elucidates imagination, creativity, intuition, and emotions, not the reverse.

-- Burel Block, Program Coordinator (posted 1/16, 6 p.m., E.S.T.)
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