response to ex. 2 (pg. 132)

Are computers helping or hurting the schools? Are they "dumbing down the students"? In "Who Needs Computers?", Clifford Stoll states that in 2101, everyone will be dead. "Almost everyone from the 20th Century will be dead. Most of our children are dead. Our grandkids now run the country, and out great-grandchildren complain about it". What will this mean when this could actually happen? Does this mean that everyone will eventually give up?
I think that everyone will eventually give in and just go with the flow. There will always be that person who won't want the computers in the classroom, and will constanly argue about them being there. NOW I'M NOT SAYING that having them in there is a bad thing, I'm really saying that having them in the classroom can be a good thing, but it depends on the age group that the classrooms have the computers. If you have them in a 5th grade class, the teacher will get nothing done, because they are playing games online all the time. If the computers are in a college classroom, the students will pay attention more, because the college students have th ability to restarin themselves from doing frivilous things on the computer.
WHILE having them in there can be a good thing, why do we need them? I remember in my biology class we would only watch film strips. We didn't need the computers, because in the film strips, you could show the film in whatever order you wanted. BUT SAYING THAT going back to filmstrips only is a bad thing, because in the way technology have improved, people can go at their own pace and not be bored with questions that they know the answer to.
WHAT I AM BASCIALLY TRYING TO SAY is that computers are not a necessity, but can influence how the students learn.