Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley - The heartland of the microelectronics industry and a modern civilization community. It plays the most important role in the development such as of Hp, Intel, Google, Apple products and many more. A place where overnight millionaires could be found. Given the status and reputation of this city, people expect lives to be easier, highly technological and well-advanced. People living here are well equipped to technology and their lives revolve around the modernization of the facilities, expensive gadgets and luxurious lifestyles. In this very city, a traditional school exists-The Waldorf School. Waldorf School does not allow computers in the classrooms. Computers are banned inside the classrooms and the school is not even ecstatic about kids having them at home. School’s teaching tools are pens and papers, knitting needles and occasionally mud. Their main focus is to teach children how to synchronize their body and brain, learn how to engage with people and most of all to love and have strong views about education. They believe that technology is a distraction when students need to have literacy, numeracy and critical thinking. Waldorf’s education is considered unique and very traditional. Learning here is different, like for example, instead of writing reports in literature, they make a story and create a play or a song. During the recess time, students learn to engage with others by playing games with no technological gadgets involved. Waldorf believes that engagement of senses play a big role in students learning development. Students are taught problem solving, mathematics and coordination skills. Students get engaged in constant movement in order to orient and anchor them in their experiences as to what they are learning, and that also helps in their memory consolidation. Waldorf do not test the students not until they reach 8th grade. For them, testing has specific contexts and impacts to children. And testing requires time to condition