A Silicon Valley School That Doesn’t Compute By Matt Richtel, New York Times, October 22^nd 2011

Parents Urged Again to Limit TV for Youngest By Benedict Carey, New York Times, October 18^th 2011

Why Pre-school shouldn’t be like School By Alison Gopnik, Slate.com, March 16 2011

Want to get your kids into college? Let them play By Erika Christakis and Nicholas Christakis, CNN, December 29 2010

The Risk of Parenting While Plugged In By Julie Scelfo, New York Times, June 2010

The Revolt of the Bruppies By Jason Fagone, Philadelphia Magazine, June 2010

The Death of Handwriting By Philadelphia Magazine, July 2011

From Finland an Intriguing School Reform Model – New York Times, December 2011

What Americans keep ignoring about Finlands school success – The Atlantic, December 2011

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The Waldorf Way: Silicon Valley School eschews technology By Rehema Ellis, NBC News, November 30^th 2011

Changing Education Paradigms By Sir Ken Robinson, TED, October 2010

The Waldorf School of Philadelphia featured on The Teacher Says with Aditi Roy on NBC10

Modern Childhood and the Brain, Psychologist Gabrielle Principe talks to Radio Times host, Marty Moss-Coane, December 2011

Why Waldorf By Paul Zehrer, The Marin County Waldorf School

Kathy Hirsh Pasek, Cognitive Developmental Research and Education

“LOS ALTOS, Calif. — The chief technology officer of eBay sends his children to a nine-classroom school here. So do employees of Silicon Valley giants like Google, Apple, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard. But the school’s chief teaching tools are anything but high-tech: pens and paper, knitting needles and, occasionally, mud. Not a computer to be found. No screens at all. They are not allowed in the classroom, and the school even frowns on their use at home.”

“I fundamentally reject the notion you need technology aids in grammar school,” said Alan Eagle, 50, whose daughter, Andie, is one of the 196 children at the Waldorf elementary school; his son William, 13, is at the nearby middle school. “The idea that an app on an iPad can better teach my kids to read or do arithmetic, that’s ridiculous.”

Mr. Eagle knows a bit about technology. He holds a computer science degree from Dartmouth and works in executive communications at Google, where he has written speeches for the chairman, Eric E. Schmidt. He uses an iPad and a smartphone. But he says his daughter, a fifth grader, “doesn’t know how to use Google,” and his son is just learning. (Starting in eighth grade, the school endorses the limited use of gadgets.)

Three-quarters of the students here have parents with a strong high-tech connection. Mr. Eagle, like other parents, sees no contradiction. Technology, he says, has its time and place: “If I worked at Miramax and made good, artsy, rated R movies, I wouldn’t want my kids to see them until they were 17.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/technology/at-waldorf-school-in-silicon-valley-technology-can-wait.html?_r=1&ref=technology