JOHN HARRIS writes at the Center for Literate Values:

[E]ducation-by-gadget doesn’t “prepare” our children for tomorrow: it programs them for a very specific kind of tomorrow. It condemns them to envision only that tomorrow and no other; it so degrades their intellectual and spiritual eyesight as to be capable of viewing only certain horizons. …. Why would we suppose that toddlers forced to learn only from buttons and screens would be preparing for a humane, creative future?

In answer to his question: No one really supposes that. Gadgets are the greatest (and the cheapest) babysitters ever invented.

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