Computers were found only in the typing class classroom, and the A/V club was VHS tapes, camcorders, and closed circuit television. Picture if you can, the state of technology and education around 1993 the year I was roughly the age of my oldest. “Education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire.” W.B. Introducing technology to our kids is, of course, paramount these days but as we wrestle with how to teach our kids to code, what to teach them to build and learn, and the impact exposure to technology has on our society and mental health, the trick, in raising kids to be healthy and successful in our future, isn’t in the technology, it’s in the creativity. Out comes an old laptop which surprisingly boots right up, and on which my kids find an old recording of myself at a microphone around 1996. Out comes the old 32″ LCD TV so that we can take it apart and explore how it worked. Nothing gets thrown away, on the off chance that that 500 MB hard drive from 2002 needs to be used.īeing a dad of three kids, opening the attic to our junk is a family event in creativity, invention, and history. “Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.” - Pablo Picassoīeing the computer geek that I am, our house is littered with old computers, monitors, dvd players, and cables.
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