Giving kids iPads won't solve the education challenge

[Nay]

5. But we're not talking about education gaps here. The essay says absolutely nothing about

such gaps. It discusses the relevance/non-relevance of computers/iPads to the actual learning process in all kids. From your comments, it's hard for me to discern whether you like the idea of iPads or hate it -- paragraph 5 suggests giving kids iPads is dumb, but paragraph 7 suggests you think iPads will help AA kids.

Personally, I have no idea whether it will help AA kids specifically, but past experience has shown that TV/computers/iPads don't help kids learn much except how to be a more idiotic consumer of useless shit. Certainly, anyone who grows up and has never touched a computer will be at a disadvantage, but knowing how to turn a computer on and use it superficially is not education. The idea that children will search out serious information in order to educate themselves is, in this culture, pretty damned absurd, and I don't care what color the kid is.