What did people every do without iPads? Well, plenty: Letters
What did people ever do without iPads? Plenty  Re “Laptops a
better tool for LAUSD students (Jan. 21):  Regarding laptops vs.
iPads, neither machine teaches one to think for oneself.  My 12
years in public school were sandwiched between the Korean War
and the John F. Kennedy inauguration. We had adding machines,
but there were no pocket calculators, home computers, DVDs or
video games. And we could not use a slide rule in math class,
only in physics and chemistry. I still managed to do well. I
also taught myself to type on a 1930s-era LC Smith manual
typewriter and do my term papers on it. Most of the time I
didn’t even use tabs to format, just the space bar and my eyes.
A century earlier, Charles Dickens wrote books in longhand. I
recently told a group of seniors that I don’t have a computer.
They came down hard on me. How can you learn anything if you
don’t Google? With reference books I have at home, newspapers,
magazines, radio, television, e