The mecca of technology "prohibited" computers!

In the school attended by children of employees at Google, to Apple, the Yahoo and other technology giants, there is neither a computer nor a screen! The use of any technological gadget is prohibited in classrooms of the school located in the heart of Silicon Valley, while the teachers recommend their students not to use or at home.
 While the rest of the world the technological equipment is needed in education, new technologies become a teaching tool and students are encouraged to use them in the heart of Mecca Technology, pencil, paper and cardboard book is the only teaching tools that are deemed acceptable. Behind this choice lies the view that schools and computers are are incompatible. Approximately 160 schools in the United States follow the same philosophy. The use of computer-appreciate-initiators of adverse effects on physical activity, creative thinking, communication among students, the concentration of children in class. "I think I need one technology to learn grammar ', said the newspaper "New York Times" an employee of Silicon Valley, whose children attend a school where there is neither a computer and which follows the teaching method of the Austrian philosopher and educator Rudolph Steiner . "The idea that an application iPad can better teach my children how to read and easier to learn arithmetic is simply ridiculous," he adds. That the father is' technofovikos "as one might think: it has a degree in computer working at Google and not going anywhere without the iPad and "smart" phone. The daughter, however, going to the fifth grade of elementary school "does not know how to use Google». His son goes to high school and has just started to learn. Together we will agree and some special education. As support, has shown that the use of computers and other technological gadgets, linked to improved student performance. For their part, managers of the school in Silicon Valley rely on evidence of ten years, according to which 94% of graduates continued their studies in higher education.