Did it REALLY take him this long to figure this out? Is he really that stupid?

the answer is yes

I always thought the same thing

when you really don't know anything about education or schools, it's easy to think: HEY! COMPUTERS! KIDS NEED COMPUTERS!

etc.

-- CatherineJohnson - 14 Apr 2006

Duh! Did it REALLY take him this long to figure this out?

Give the man a break, he's figured it out way ahead of NCTM.

-- CarolynJohnston - 14 Apr 2006

“What's wrong with education cannot be fixed with technology,” he told Wired magazine last year.

Duh! Did it REALLY take him this long to figure this out? Is he really that stupid? Are Apple sales reps now going to stop pushing their hype on schools? How long will it take Bill Gates to figure this out? Like teachers, the solution is only whatever intersects with their own agenda.

-- SteveH - 14 Apr 2006

Steven Jobs on computers in the classroom

...Steven Jobs, one of the founders of Apple Computer and a man who claims to have “spearheaded giving away more computer equipment to schools than anybody else on the planet,” has come to a grim conclusion: “What's wrong with education cannot be fixed with technology,” he told Wired magazine last year. “No amount of technology will make a dent.... You're not going to solve the problems by putting all knowledge onto CD-ROMs. We can put a Web site in every school—none of this is bad. It's bad only if it lulls us into thinking we're doing something to solve the problem with education.”

source:
Computer Delusions