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• 30 Jul 09
  

  Sue Miller

  technology_integration

• 13 Apr 09
  

  Justin Reeve
• 07 Apr 09
  

  Tony Searl

  Teaching Trumps TechOne-to-one laptop programs won't fix your district's problems. Effective teaching will.

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• 05 Mar 09
  

  Kristina Hurley
  • Federal programs like E-Rate, state programs such as Maine’s one-to-one computer initiative, and many district-specific programs focus on providing students with access to technology. These initiatives are based upon one principle: making technology available
  • While computers have been in classrooms since the 1980s,
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  • • The problem is that access to technology should not be the goal; improving teaching and learning should be.
    • Phrases like “Students will use the Internet to ...” or “Students will write an essay on the computer about ...” are not uncommon and satisfy the need to say that we have integrated technology. Consider how strange it would be to see a lesson that includes the statement “Students will use paper and a pen….”
    • Schools are in the information business
    • There was a time when information was only accessible at school from teachers, libraries, and textbooks.
    • the Internet has changed the rules: Information is available at any time to anyone with access.
    • decide what should be the focus of instruction: information retention, or information consumption.
    • If they choose retention then they don’t have to worry about putting technology into their classrooms. If they choose consumption, then a new and exciting world of instruction will become available
    • For years
    • Constructivist learning, differentiated instruction, and inquiry-based learning have been around for many years. All of these pedagogies place less emphasis on retention of information.
    • What if long ago the government had decided to protect and subsidize all those manual agriculture jobs and refused to embrace mechanized and eventually computerized agriculture?”
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    • develop habits
    • develop methods of teaching
    • Rick Cave is the K–12 director of technology for the West Windsor-Plainsboro (NJ) Regional School District.
• 02 Mar 09
  

  Michelle Krill

  21st nets bestpractices 1:1 techleaders reform article scholastic

  • First, technology is changing the way students interact with information. It has revolutionized the way we obtain, gather, evaluate, and search for information, and schools that have not adapted to these changes find themselves disconnected from their students.
  • Secondly, many technology initiatives are specifically designed to increase a student’s access to technology. Therefore, a school district can achieve its goal without actually improving student learning. The problem is that access to technology should not be the goal; improving teaching and learning should be.
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  • • Consider how strange it would be to see a lesson that includes the statement “Students will use paper and a pen….”
    • There was a time when information was only accessible at school from teachers, libraries, and textbooks. If a student didn’t learn the information before they left school, they had very limited access to these information resources. Yet now, the Internet has changed the rules: Information is available at any time to anyone with access.
    • School leaders need to decide what should be the focus of instruction: information retention, or information consumption.
    • Districts need to realize that one size does not fit all, and placing the same technology in each classroom in the name of equity is a recipe for disaster.
• 27 Feb 09
  

  Jared Reck

  Tech Futures! One-to-one laptop programs won't fix your district's problems. Effective teaching will.

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