a ten- or eleven-year-old can figure out an iPad (or whatever has replaced it by the time she turns that age) in an instant. By that age, as well, she will begin to be cognitively ready to actually become “computer literate”—to be taught and to practice the fascinating algorithmic and mathematical thinking that is at the heart of much technology. And she will have had a real childhood, with dirt under her fingernails, countless books nearly memorized through delighted rereading, and complex, embodied skills encoded into her still-growing brain. She will enjoy the rich life of a soul in a body,
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