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This is my response to the article :Classrooms have become unnecessarily high tech
By Matt Baxter found on http://www.mercurynews.com/community/ci_9034769?nclick_check=1&forced=true.


I do understand some of the points that he makes in the article. But for the most part I completely disagree. Computers are a completely necessary part of our education system. All schools should be able to supply its students with computers. The world we live in today is using less and less paper, and more and more computers. We do not write letters, we send emails. We do not write out our papers in nice hand writing, we type them. We do not look through text books and encyclopedias to access our information. We simply find it on the internet. High tech high is the model for what schools should look like, in terms of technology. Every person in our school has access to a laptop any time of day. We have projectors in all of our classrooms for the teachers to display what is on their computer without the use of old annoying overheads. The author of the article does make a good point about the high cost of buying books for schools, and that they constantly need to be updated. I completely agree with this statement. But it is basically an argument for why computers are the perfect solution for replacing textbooks. The internet automatically updates its information without the government having to pay the 30,000 dollars that he said it costs to replace the books. I believe that computers are the perfect solution to this problem. Here at our school we do not need books, because we have all the information we need right in front of us on the computer. Schools do need to have computers in order to keep up with the technological world. High Tech High is a perfect school to model that thinking around.