Waldorf School Education

As far back as I can remember I have had a happy childhood. I didn’t grow up depending on technology to teach me the alphabet or learning to draw pictures on an iPad. Instead I played outside for hours in my tree house inventing new ways to climb the tree in my backyard, and learning to color inside the lines of my coloring book that I bought with the quarters I earned with my lemonade stand at the end of my drive way. Families that make up our society and individuals are affected by different aspects of technology everyday. The digital age that we have rapidly approached since the 2000’s has effected minds of young children teaching them to play a digital game in a computer

In his article “If Technology Is Making Us Stupid, It’s Not Technology’s Fault,” David Theo Goldberg effectively informs the reader about the effects that computers in the home and school environment could have on the future education of the coming generations. Goldberg achieves this by executing defined organization and adding unique comparisons about the potentially crippling effects technology can have on a society when put into the wrong hands.

In this brief editorial adapted by Eliana Dockterman, "The Digital Parent Trap" portrays the current battle between a child's world with and without technology. As many schools and parents are split between the two decisions, Dockterman finds a way to be the tie breaker through her persuasion and smooth rhetorical devices. Docktermon tries her best to convince the readers that technology is okay in moderation, and builds her argument through word choice. With the formality of her diction and her many reliable sources to persuade the reader, she seems to have everything she needs to get the job done.

We grew up hearing from elders that education is the path to success. We learned from an early age that the reason we go to school five days a week it is so we can become a member of the successful group. As I read “Against School” written by former New York State teacher John Taylor Gatto in 2003 for Harper’s Magazine I started to question his claims when he wrote that school teaches students how to be consumers and school limits students from growing up by teaching them how to obey. Those statements are spurious. As a matter of fact, the school prepares students for life. Lastly, technology plays a major role in school because it expands the learning for the children.

The Board of Education for the Rowan Salisbury Schools are fully aware of how twenty-first century technologies can affect the manner in which our teachers teach and our students learn. It is the goal of the district to provide a safe and nurturing atmosphere that is technologically rich. Providing every student and employee with access to these tools is meant to enhance and improve the learning experience that will ultimately improve the academic achievements of all of our students. The use of the District’s resources are not a right, but come with responsibilities for proper care and use of all district owned technology. The Board also reserves the right to place restrictions on the proper care and use of its devices.

This article was in support of implementing technology into our school classrooms. It states that educational technology is pertinent to providing our kids with the skills that they will need to be successful in the twenty-first Century.

Goldwasser makes a great point by stating, “According to the article “What’s the Matter with the Kids Today?” many adults believe that young minds are being taken over by technology. Goldwasser believes that instead, they are more involved and educated as a result of social media, texting, and using the internet to learn. She uses Common Core surveys that state that young people are in “stunning ignorance of history and literature” as well as Doris Lessing’s comments on the decrease of youth’s interest in books in her Nobel prize speech (635). Goldwasser uses these examples to create her argument that if parents better understood technology, teenagers would not be viewed as addicted to

In my opinion, it’s a good idea for tech executives in Silicon Valley to send their children to the Waldorf School of the Peninsula. After reading the article “A Silicon Valley School That Doesn’t Compute” written by Matt Richtel. he stated that “The Waldorf School’s chief teaching tools are blackboards with colorful chalk, bookshelves with encyclopedias, desks filled with books and pencils but not high-tech.” Since both at home education and in school education is important, we can know the styles of those tech executive parents at home education are more technological. So in this case, completely different styles of in school education is essential and helpful for their children. I believe that “Real engagement

If you were to take a stroll down any populated street in America, you would see the use of technology. So how has this impacted the children of this generation? In order to contrast this, I have interviewed two members of my community. Ron Moore (58) and Brayden Johnson (11), have lived very different childhoods, despite being raised in the same community, Ron spent most of his youth doing outdoors activities, learning to work, and was raised in a more family oriented manner.

Susan Pinker, a developmental psychologist and columnist, posted her article “Can Students Have Too Much Tech” in “The New York Times”, an American daily online newspaper,

The current generation of children is completely different than the preceding ones. They are living in the digital age. “Technology has blended in with daily activity to become a way of life and children today take for granted all of which is automated. It is hard for kids nowadays to imagine a world that existed without all of the gadgets, electronics and seamless operations that computer technology provides.” (3) “Children in the United States devote some 40 hours a week to television, video games and the Internet.” (12) Many psychologists and researchers are concerned about the impact that technology has on children. Children, tomorrow’s future parents and leaders, are being consumed by the negative effects that technology had on their

Today’s technology has greatly impacted the young children’s everyday lives. Phones, tablets, and computers are all a form of technology that impact the way kids are influenced. Some children get phones or computers at young ages and it can cause kids to depend on it to entertain them. Eventually they will allow the technology to take over and have it become the form of communication between friend and family instead of face to face. As parents continue to buy their children new technology they don’t monitor the amount of time their children spend on the Internet. Technology is becoming more advanced overtime which causes children to become more attached and unable to function without it near by.

Over the past 30 years, technology has made great strides towards becoming a fundamental part of our everyday lives; and for millions of parents and their children, it already is. The modern American household is catered towards the technologically inclined- computers, tablets, gaming systems, and smart TVs have become commonplace in many homes. Not only do they serve their practical purpose, but devices such as these also offer many opportunites for children and toddlers to learn, play, and experience things they'd previously been unable to. Many might challenge ideas such as this without outdated statistics or conservative mindsets, but the truth of the matter is, the technological era has arrived; and our children need to learn how to live in it.

Technology has revolutionized the human experience by changing the way one learns. Technology can best be defined as a tool that supports and promotes human learning. This can be seen through the usage of calculators, tablets (example: iPad), Smart Boards, video cameras, and, of course, the computer. These are all innovations that can have a profound impact on classroom learning. Although there are some schools that have a strict policy that technology should be removed from the modern day classroom, other schools believe that integrating technology into the classroom helps prepare our students for the elaborate world they will face going forward. Throughout this essay, I will be focusing on the technology policy and how it has a positive

Have you ever taken a tour to an middle or high school and saw where the black boards use to be there are now giant computer screens? Our world is changing to a new era where technology has taken over not only the homes but the schools as well. Computers can now be found in almost every classroom and home, but, is this a good a thing or a bad thing? In the New York Times article “Can Students Have too Much Tech” written by Susan Pinker she examines what it means to have technology not only in the classroom but, in the homes of many children. While I agree that teachers must also be equipped with skills to manage, educate, and control technology in their lesson plan, I find her reference to be flawed. Her references does not examine the educational