Position Papers
ACCS Position Paper #3: Computers and Classroom InstructionApproved: 6/27/01
The computer is a tool, and, like any tool, it has its appropriate place and use. ACCS recognizes the benefits of such a tool, and actively encourages its use for word processing productivity, accounting, and administration, and to assist students in some of their learning. ACCS also recognizes that computers have their deficiencies as well, including, but not limited to, relatively passive learning. ACCS strongly advocates personal, interactive, classroom instruction that conforms to The Seven Laws of Teaching by John Milton Gregory. Whereas personal computers can greatly aid in the accomplishment of work and studies, they are no replacement for a capable Christian instructor who loves the Lord, loves his students, loves his subject, and has a passion to communicate that love to his students. ACCS acknowledges the use of computers at school, but not for the instruction of students. ACCS favors students learning about computers and using them, but is opposed to the use of computers to instruct students. Because of the way that God has created men, ACCS believes the best means of instructing students is through a qualified human teacher on a personal level rather than by an impersonal machine. The functional use of computers is simple to learn and is accomplished easily enough at home by parents who can set guidelines for and supervise their use. In general, instruction by means of computers in classical and Christian schools is not seen as a need by ACCS.
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