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What if we’d listened?
Students today can't prepare bark to calculate
their problems. They depend on their slates
which are more expensive. What will they do
when the slate is dropped and it breaks? They
will be unable to write!
Teachers' Conference
1703
Students today depend on paper too much. They
don't know how to write on a slate without getting
chalk dust all over themselves. They can't clean a
slate properly. What will they do when they run out
of paper?
Principal's Association
1815
Students today depend too much on ink. They don't
know how to use a pen knife to sharpen a pencil.
Pen and ink will never replace the pencil.
National Association of
American Teachers
1907
Students today depend on expensive fountain pens,
they can no longer write with a straight pen. We
parents must not allow children to wallow in such
luxury to the detriment of learning to cope in the
real business world which is not so extravagant!
Parent Teachers Association
Gazette
1941
Ballpoint pens will be the ruin of the country -
students use these and then throw them away!
Business and banks will never allow such expensive
luxuries
US Federal Teachers meeting
1950
You can't let children use calculators on the test ... if
you do that you wouldn't ever learn how to use the
tables in the back of the book and the skill of
interpolation to figure out your trig ratios
Secondary School Mathematics Teacher
1980
We can't let them use calculators in Year 7 - if we do
they will not be able to multiple three digit
numbers by 3 digit numbers ... what will they do
when they do not have access to a calculator?
Middle School Teacher
1989
Why would you want the internet for school use? It's
just a fad .. let them use the library.
Local Authority Support Officer
1995
Teachers will never use email.
Teacher on an LA committee
1996
Why would I want to put school stuff on the web?
Who is going to look at it?
Governor in a secondary school
2005
Why are we talking about students having laptops in
schools? I don't think that most parents will give
their kids their old computer let alone buy them a
new one
Teacher
2007
All phones, ipods and other electronic or mobile
devices are banned in school and will be confiscated
if being used in class.
The vast majority of schools'
behaviour policy documents
2010-11
Section 550ZC (power to seize items found during search)
... apply to an item that ... is an electronic device ... the
person who seized the item may examine any data or
files on the device ... if the person has decided to return
the item to its owner, retain it or dispose of it, the
person may erase any data or files from the device.
The 2011 Education Act
Micheal Wilshaw,
Head of Ofsted, 2015
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