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What does hinder the development of children's creativity and intuition is every authoritative "only one chance" context. Therefore it does not matter, whether the only chance were the "full technology" option or the opposite. What children need for their creativity and intuition is a context where they will be able to choose.

Therefore the experts who argue "against" the maximization of computer technology are right, if this maximization was the only option -- by the same token, they would be wrong if rejecting the computer technology would become the only option for children.

What I want to say is that all of us, as educators, should take care of providing children with a learning context in which they are able to choose, that is, with a dialectic context for learning. Conversely, choosing the best chance to be given to children by authority, will be always a hindrance for the latter's Critical Thinking, open-mindedness and creativity.

-- Antonio Rossin, Neurologist, Family Doctor, Town Health Services of: Taglio di Po, Italy (posted 1/19, 9:10 a.m., E.S.T.)
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