Teachers using pens and paper in the classroom “not fair” to students, Microsoft official says

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5. All my arts and science work is "analog"

I use paint, chalk, pencil, ink, metal, plastic, wood, glass, paper (loads of paper of all kinds, sizes).
It's my livelihood.

All my real knowledge comes from books, and I find sources like wiki to be incredibly shallow (every sentence has 5 links to other shallow articles, never to a root explanation) and almost instantly forgettable. Esp. in the math sciences.

I use computers to play games, to do quick lookups of info, some shopping, downloading movies, etc., but find it very very limiting if I try to use it for design, sketching, thinking on the move, for which I *need* to breathe in the world, to get inspiration from my physical space. From my intensifying connection with my physical space, as my work gels and progresses. If I wanted to mass produce some project that I've done I'd no doubt input the design and directions into a computer, get some company to manufacture the product, but I've never done anything creative, from scratch, on a computer, except gfx and level-building work on computer games.

I find it absolutely necessary that I have the mental patterns in place to do quick mental arithmetic.

The microsoft shill is totally wrong-headed.