Waldorf teachers feel the appropriate age for computer use in the classroom and by students is in high school. We feel it is more important for students to have the opportunity to interact with one another and with teachers in exploring the world of ideas, participating in the creative process, and developing their knowledge, skills, abilities, and inner qualities. Waldorf students have a love of learning, an ongoing curiosity, and interest in life. As older students, they quickly master computer technology, and graduates have successful careers in the computer industry (including our website programmer/designer!).

For additional reading, please see:

The Future Does Not Compute by Steven Talbot;
Failure To Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children’s Minds For Better and Worse by Jane Healy;
Fools Gold on the Alliance for Childhood's website.

Also, for more information and book resources, please see GWS's Media Policy.