||| FROM TOBY AND SARAH COOPER |||
We are pleased to stand with our many Orcas friends in support of the 2021 Tech Levy.
For me, as a student up through graduate studies at Michigan, technology was defined as a Smith Corona manual typewriter, period. Those early Texas Instruments pocket calculators, though available, were outlawed in class or exams.
We have come a long way. Today’s OI students need access to technology not to master gadgets – they did that in grade school – but to learn to weave technology deep within every aspect of their personal and professional lives. How effectively they practice that integration will in part define their future measure of success.
I hope this measure passes with the comfortable plurality it deserves. Thank you to all for support.
I wholeheartedly agree and will be voting for this measure. When I attended high school, 50 IBM Selectrics had just been purchased for our typing class, so I got lucky (and the skill of touch typing is perhaps the most important thing I learned in High School–I’ve forgotten all my calculus). And I was the first student in my Advanced Math class to own a calculator, which the teacher eyed with considerable suspicion. How times have changed…