Sometimes we become so passionate about a topic that we forget that life doesn't need to center around the computer.

"Most schools are pushing the computers," he said. "It's a little more glamorous to teach computer technology."

But a well-rounded person, Sandlin said, knows how to do a little bit of everything, "including how to do things with your hands."

Gosney's PC has 600,000 images that can be used to design projects, but he uses it mostly for student grades and playing digitized Merle Haggard songs.

"We don't use it that much anymore," Gosney said.

Bratt, the California wood-shop teacher, said his computer usually stays off because shop dust tends to collect in the vents.

Students design projects the old-fashioned way, he said, using pencil and paper to make sketches of dinghies, beds, dressers and entertainment centers.

Wood shop gives way to technology education

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