Computers don’t belong in the classroom, imo.
I think up through age twelve....it’s a waste. I would agree, that math classes would be better after the sixth grade if computers were utilized in the class and allowed the more advanced kids to progress quickly through modules. I can remember around the ninth grade where the teacher was incompetent and we wasted around twelve weeks on one single chapter because he couldn’t get more than a quarter of the class to grasp the topic.
I’d also agree that computers do very little in terms of literature or English grammar.
This idea that every kid in a school needs a laptop....it just means more cost waste on the school district for the laptops and the stupid software packages. Few grasp where cost enters into the game.
“Computers don’t belong in the classroom”
This is more to the point. I agree. More times than not it is a toy for the students, and not the tool it is meant to be.
Perhaps you are right. . . at certain levels. . . on the other hand, I think the Classroom belongs in computers. That's what Apple is facilitating. Did you even read the article before commenting?
"Apple has more than one million apps, more than two million books, almost one million media files available through its services, according to Couch, as well as more than 10,000 public courses through its online learning repository iTunes U - with Apple breaking down some of that content into categories and educational level to make it easier to browse."