{"id":62,"date":"2004-06-14T22:43:42","date_gmt":"2004-06-14T22:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php\/2004\/06\/14\/computers_in_sc\/"},"modified":"2004-06-14T22:43:42","modified_gmt":"2004-06-14T22:43:42","slug":"computers_in_sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Computers in Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In these days of national standards (which in my mind relate to narrowness<br \/>\nand mediocrity) it&#8217;s refreshing to see educators re-inforcing that schools<br \/>\nare about producing &#8220;people who can think, create and innovate &#8211; and<br \/>\nnot just pass exams&#8221;. (See Gary Barker&#8217;s article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/articles\/2004\/06\/14\/1087065069960.html\">Logging<br \/>\ninto the laptop revolution<\/a>.) <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I had honestly started wondering whether I was the only remaining person<br \/>\non the planet who believed this. What an interesting place to find these<br \/>\nsentiments &#8211; in a conference about laptops in education. Not so strange<br \/>\nreally. It warms my heart to see it. Even warmer to read that Professor<br \/>\nSeymour Papert was speaking at the conference. Papert, through his little<br \/>\nbook <A\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In these days of national standards (which in my mind relate to narrowness and mediocrity) it&#8217;s refreshing to see educators re-inforcing that schools are about producing &#8220;people who can think, create and innovate &#8211; and not just pass exams&#8221;. (See Gary Barker&#8217;s article Logging into the laptop revolution.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}