This is an interesting article about Waldorf Schools, which avoid using technology in their classrooms. This is in stark contrast to most other schools, which are rapidly working to incorporate new technologies into curriculum. This article plays on the seeming contradiction that exists of having a Waldorf School in the Silicon Valley where its students largely come from families of big-time technology executives. As the article states, it is extremely difficult to formulate clear comparisons about educational quality between Waldorf Schools and more conventional classrooms. I think that nostalgia for the past (before everything was so plugged in) has a tendency to bias a lot of impressions about things like this (whether it be schools or the article on social relationships I posted a few days ago), but it does seem there may be some definite ways that a more interactive and engaged classroom can benefit students.
"A Silicon Valley School That Doesn't Compute" by Matt Richtel
Published in the New York Times, October 22, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/technology/at-waldorf-school-in-silicon-valley-technology-can-wait.html?_r=2
Eric
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