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Na sequência do seu post anterior, Norberto Pires informa sobre a posição de Steve Jobs e de outros autores em relação ao uso de computadores na educação:Do famoso Steve Jobs em 1996 à Wired:Wired: Could technology help by improving education?Steve Jobs: "I used to think that technology could help education. I've probably spearheaded giving away more computer equipment to schools than anybody else on the planet. But I've had to come to the inevitable conclusion that the problem is not one that technology can hope to solve. What's wrong with education cannot be fixed with technology. No amount of technology will make a dent.It's a political problem. The problems are sociopolitical. The problems are unions. You plot the growth of the NEA [National Education Association] and the dropping of SAT scores, and they're inversely proportional. The problems are unions in the schools. The problem is bureaucracy. I'm one of these people who believes the best thing we could ever do is go to the full voucher system. (...) When you have kids you think, what exactly do I want them to learn? Most of the stuff they study in school is completely useless. But some incredibly valuable things you don't learn until you're older - yet you could learn them when you're younger. And you start to think, What would I do if I set a curriculum for a school? God, how exciting that could be! But you can't do it today. You'd be crazy to work in a school today. You don't get to do what you want. You don't get to pick your books, your curriculum. You get to teach one narrow specialization. Who would ever want to do that?These are the solutions to our problems in education. Unfortunately, technology isn't it. 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.Lincoln did not have a Web site at the log cabin where his parents home-schooled him, and he turned out pretty interesting. Historical precedent shows that we can turn out amazing human beings without technology. Precedent also shows that we can turn out very uninteresting human beings with technology. It's not as simple as you think when you're in your 20s - that technology's going to change the world. In some ways it will, in some ways it won't. "Sobre o mesmo asunto, leia-se o Finantial Times (Maio de 2006):"Throwing laptops at the education problem is, alas, a whole lot easier than figuring out how to actually teach kids."Ou daqui esta opinião tirada daqui que refere o caso português:"I'm not saying it's not important for kids to know how to use computers and the Internet. But there's a base level of knowledge that kids need to have first, in all subjects -- math, English, foreign languages, music, art, science and others. It's foolish to kill some academic programs (even music, as Oppenheimer documents in some cases) in favor of technology acquisition. Kids who have access to computers will quickly learn on their own how to make use of the machinery and how to navigate the Internet as needed." Pois... there's more in this than meets the eye...J. Norberto Pires