{"id":1458,"date":"2010-09-23T22:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/23\/what-kevin-kelly-learned-about-technology-when-he-homeschooled-his-son-2\/"},"modified":"2010-09-23T22:42:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T22:42:00","slug":"what-kevin-kelly-learned-about-technology-when-he-homeschooled-his-son-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/23\/what-kevin-kelly-learned-about-technology-when-he-homeschooled-his-son-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What Kevin Kelly learned about technology when he homeschooled his son"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Kevin Kelly learned about technology when he homeschooled his son<\/a>: “My friend Kevin Kelly<\/a> always has interesting observations. Last year he homeschooled his 8th grade son for a year. He wrote about it for the New York Times Magazine<\/em>. Here’s a list of the things he learned about technology from the experience:<\/p>\n

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Technology will change faster than we can teach it. My son studied the popular programming language C++ in his home-school year; that knowledge could be economically useless soon. The accelerating pace of technology means his eventual adult career does not exist yet. Of course it won\u2019t be taught in school. But technological smartness can be. Here is the kind of literacy that we tried to impart:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Every new technology will bite back. The more powerful its gifts, the more powerfully it can be abused. Look for its costs.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Technologies improve so fast you should postpone getting anything you need until the last second. Get comfortable with the fact that anything you buy is already obsolete.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Before you can master a device, program or invention, it will be superseded; you will always be a beginner. Get good at it.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Be suspicious of any technology that requires walls. If you can fix it, modify it or hack it yourself, that is a good sign.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The proper response to a stupid technology is to make a better one, just as the proper response to a stupid idea is not to outlaw it but to replace it with a better idea.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Every technology is biased by its embedded defaults: what does it assume?<\/p>\n

\u2022 Nobody has any idea of what a new invention will really be good for. The crucial question is, what happens when everyone has one?<\/p>\n

\u2022 The older the technology, the more likely it will continue to be useful.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Find the minimum amount of technology that will maximize your options.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Achieving Techno-Literacy<\/a><\/p>\n

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