Kern van mijn betoog is: hoe meer beeldscherm in de klas, hoe minder eigen breinwerk.
...om over handschrift te zwijgen … tegenwoordig dieptriest
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
This quote keeps on showing up out of context. Edsger and I got along quite well. He loved to be the way he was and pushed it. His friend Bob Barton (the great genius of the B5000 design) was very similar in loving to push buttons and being very critical of the not-quite-a-field that we have. When the U of Utah faculty complained to Dave Evans about Barton, Evans said "We don't care if they're prima donnas as long as they can sing!" This was a general attitude back then. Dijkstra was much more funny than annoying for anyone who had any sense of self. The two biggest problems in our not-quite-a-field were those who listened to him too carefully and those who didn't listen to him carefully enough. In any case, in the research and faculty worlds of the 60s -- where the funding from ARPA was very very different than funding is today -- consensus was not very important: really capable people explored without worrying so much about what others thought (this is hard to explain to people who've grown up in the intensely social and identity seeking world of the last 20 years or so). His comment about OOP (a rather different kind of thing at Xerox PARC than what the term means today) did not bother any of us at all -- it was rather a compliment even (which was also not a big deal) for those of us who liked the way California worked in the 70s. His comments helped when they helped, and they mattered not at all when they didn't.
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Sterker nog: wat is in de digitale samenleving überhaupt nog het nut van schrijfonderwijs? Je kunt kinderen toch ook leren de juiste toetsjes in te drukken?
Je moet begrijpen hoe je moet rekenen.
wat is trouwens nog het nut van kunnen rekenen? op elke smartphone staat een rekenmachine.
… meen me te herinneren dat het eigenhandig uitschrijven van bijvoorbeeld colleges, bevorderlijk is voor de informatieverwerking door de hersenen. Het motorische beïnvloedt cognitieve processen