Anastasia Sinclair, a gardening teacher, showed third-graders how to make a salad from vegetables grown at the Los Altos Waldorf School, where lessons are hands-on.
(Jim Wilson/New York Times)
Silicon Valley school sticks to basics, shuns high-tech tools
Anastasia Sinclair, a gardening teacher, showed third-graders how to make a salad from vegetables grown at the Los Altos Waldorf School, where lessons are hands-on.
(Jim Wilson/New York Times)
The chief technology officer of eBay sends his children to a nine-classroom school here. So do employees of Silicon Valley giants like Google, Apple, Yahoo, and Hewlett-Packard. But the school’s chief teaching tools are anything but high-tech: pens and paper, knitting needles, and, occasionally, mud. Not a computer to be found. No screens at all. They are not allowed in the classroom, and the school even frowns on their use at home.
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