by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
The computer has become the learning appliance. Don’t believe me? Just ask my six-year-old niece. So what do schools do now?<\/strong><\/p>\n “What are you searching?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n That was a simple question. Last weekend I was in Chattanooga, Tennessee visiting with relatives. I was sitting in front of my portable computer studying and modifying a document.<\/p>\n My six-year-old niece walked up to me, perched her chin on the table top next to my computer as only a precocious, six-year-old girl can do, rolled her eyes to me, and asked “what are you searching?”<\/p>\n She didn’t ask, “what are you doing?” or “what game are you playing?” or “can I use your computer to play Webkins” or whatever it is that six year old girls do on the computer. No, it was “what are you searching?”<\/p>\n Computer usage has come to this, searching. There is nothing else that we do on computers any longer. We search.<\/p>\n Maybe that isn’t a bad thing. Why search? Well, for me at least, I search to learn something that I don’t know. The computer has become a learning appliance. There are far worse things to do with a computer or anything else. Learning is pretty good.<\/p>\n What does this say for schools? If the computer has become the learning appliance<\/em>, what do schools do? Teach kids how to use the learning appliance? That wouldn’t be a bad thing. Perhaps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips The computer has become the learning appliance. Don’t believe me? Just ask my six-year-old niece. So what do schools do now? “What are you searching?” That was a simple question. Last weekend I was in Chattanooga, Tennessee visiting with relatives. I was sitting in front of my portable computer studying and modifying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,20,3],"tags":[139,142,126],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-learning","category-technology","tag-culture","tag-learning","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}