In the passage in The Computer Race Goes to Class by Sterne, he makes the overarching point that the lack of computers in certain areas of school hinder the students ability to prosper and get a thorough education everyone deserves in such an era where technology oversees people’s day to day life. While it is true that students do need a basic understanding of the functions of computer and internet usage in order to be successful in obtaining jobs or applying to colleges, younger students should not be one of the priorities in the list of people that should obtain computers.
The article argues that those of the minority race are at a greater disadvantage because students should have early access to computers so that later in life, using computers become second nature to them. While minority races not having access to computers could be detrimental, not every aspect of not owning a computer is harmful to their future. In fact, using computers at such a young age could be more harmful. With computers having variety of tools that fix mistakes for the user such as spelling and grammar checker, students could be at a disadvantage if they have no access to computers later in their life. An example of such is when my brother was in the third grade, he was given an assignment to write an essay on the computer. When I checked it over for him, the essay seemed to be acceptable for a third grade level with no spelling errors and simple grammatical sentences. However, when I had to grade a handwritten essay later on, I saw an enormous amount of spelling errors. With more computer usage acceptable to students at such an early age, I could see that students can only make such mistakes since they get less analogous teaching and more technological teaching.
The argument is made that the racial inequality in regards to availability of computer access is one of the major problems that is hindering education of students. However, the article makes the quote from “Here Come the Microkids” in the 1982 edition of Time Magazine saying that though this particular student’s reading level is lower than the average level for his age, his computer skills are top notch. This could be used as the argument that learning how to use a computer is an easy skill and not necessarily something that takes a long time to use before being able to use them. As such, students at younger ages do not particularly need computers as they can learn at a later age such as middle school.
Computer skills are crucial in order to live through the present technology era. However, computer skills can be learned at a later age. To make the method of distributing computers out to school more effective, businesses should give them out to higher level education facilities in poorer areas first before the younger students gain access to the computers.
The article argues that those of the minority race are at a greater disadvantage because students should have early access to computers so that later in life, using computers become second nature to them. While minority races not having access to computers could be detrimental, not every aspect of not owning a computer is harmful to their future. In fact, using computers at such a young age could be more harmful. With computers having variety of tools that fix mistakes for the user such as spelling and grammar checker, students could be at a disadvantage if they have no access to computers later in their life. An example of such is when my brother was in the third grade, he was given an assignment to write an essay on the computer. When I checked it over for him, the essay seemed to be acceptable for a third grade level with no spelling errors and simple grammatical sentences. However, when I had to grade a handwritten essay later on, I saw an enormous amount of spelling errors. With more computer usage acceptable to students at such an early age, I could see that students can only make such mistakes since they get less analogous teaching and more technological teaching.
The argument is made that the racial inequality in regards to availability of computer access is one of the major problems that is hindering education of students. However, the article makes the quote from “Here Come the Microkids” in the 1982 edition of Time Magazine saying that though this particular student’s reading level is lower than the average level for his age, his computer skills are top notch. This could be used as the argument that learning how to use a computer is an easy skill and not necessarily something that takes a long time to use before being able to use them. As such, students at younger ages do not particularly need computers as they can learn at a later age such as middle school.
Computer skills are crucial in order to live through the present technology era. However, computer skills can be learned at a later age. To make the method of distributing computers out to school more effective, businesses should give them out to higher level education facilities in poorer areas first before the younger students gain access to the computers.