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there were a number of attendees who confused computer-assisted math, in which the computer makes it easier to do what they’re already doing, with computational mathematics. To paraphrase an analogy Seymour Papert once made, this is like using a jet-engine to speed up a horse-drawn carriage

Skills that were deemed absolutely essential when the tools we had were different may no longer be the skills that are necessary today. As Sugata Mitra asks, how many of us need to know how to ride a horse, once an essential skill. Or to use a slide rule to determine logarithms or even how to really dial a phone.