Submitted by sue (not verified) on March 15, 2008 - 16:01.
Going global.... Many students view the world outside of their classroom from a textbook picture (and those are usually dated!). Watching a few minutes of the respective channel one (which they are REQUIRED to watch because the districts contracts with them), are nothing more than sound bites. I've yet to see a student bring their home laptop into school and utilize it as a global interface with a teachers lecture.
Technology and hands-on applications bring the students closer to asking why, or begin to make them curious. That's a start. Bringing ownership into their classroom with instructors that continue to want to learn themselves and bring that to the students also helps. Bringing the world to them and creating that global community begins with providing them and the TEACHERS with the tools to do so...Here, here for a computer on every desk. I've asked for that for years but it always fell on deaf (broke) ears.
Technology in the classroom
Submitted by sue (not verified) on March 15, 2008 - 16:01.
Going global.... Many students view the world outside of their classroom from a textbook picture (and those are usually dated!). Watching a few minutes of the respective channel one (which they are REQUIRED to watch because the districts contracts with them), are nothing more than sound bites. I've yet to see a student bring their home laptop into school and utilize it as a global interface with a teachers lecture.
Technology and hands-on applications bring the students closer to asking why, or begin to make them curious. That's a start. Bringing ownership into their classroom with instructors that continue to want to learn themselves and bring that to the students also helps. Bringing the world to them and creating that global community begins with providing them and the TEACHERS with the tools to do so...Here, here for a computer on every desk. I've asked for that for years but it always fell on deaf (broke) ears.