Can we meet somewhere in the middle?

A recent NewYork Times article about The Waldorf School in Los Altos, CA explained that the kids in this K-12 private school do not use any forms of technology in their classrooms. Many big names on the Internet send their kids to The Waldorf School, but according Alan Eagle, who works for Google, "his daughter, a fifth grader, “doesn’t know how to use Google,” and his son is just learning." Parents and teachers are trying to justify they decision not to use technology, by saying, “At Google and all these places, we make technology as brain-dead easy to use as possible. There’s no reason why kids can’t figure it out when they get older.”. I do not think that this is the case now, we've all seen our grandparents and even our parents struggle to do simple Google searches, because they have not grown up with the technology that we as 21st century students have. To me, technology is the wave of the future, so students who are not using technology in the classroom will eventually suffer in the real world, and be stuck behind those of us who can type a paper or do a Google search with our eyes closed. Here at Burlington High School, the iPad program has been good, having a hand held device on us at all times makes it easy to learn more than what a text book can tell us, and there truly is a helpful app for everything. I do think that our school is way ahead of the game and a compromise could be the best bet, maybe not every student needs a device on them at all times, but students should know how to navigate the web and perform simple tasks even when they are just in elementary school.