Sandi Margolis's List: netbooks in ed

hink about the size, it's perfect for young students. The keyboards are small, which would fit the small hand size of primary grade students very well. Proper keyboarding skills could be taught at an earlier age. This could help prevent poor habits from getting started. In our district, we start teaching keyboarding in fourth grade, and even that is tough for some of the students - they have a hard time making some of the reaches to certain keys.

Netbooks would offer much, much more.

Dear Mr. Maas,
These computers are a big part of my life as a fifth grader. They are life savers.Having a laptop helps me in writing because I'm not the most unorganized person, so I don't have tons of papers to mix up and lose. I can type everything on my computer and not be worried about it getting lost. In my classroom, Ms. V doesn't have to sit up at her computer and pull the website up on the projector screen. Before the computers, we were wasting time going up to the meeting area instead of doing our work. If I didn't have a computer next year, I wouldn't feel like it's the end of the world. Although, I would feel sort of disappointed if we didn't have computers next year. You wouldn't understand how wonderful these laptops are unless you were a kid like me. These are wonderful objects of technology! Kids next year should really look forward to doing almost all of their work online. It's so much easier for everyone because we don't have to have the teacher show us the website and we don't have to listen to them repeat everything three or four times.We can even take our spelling tests online! If you don't agree with me, stop by our class for one day and experience our wonderful technology. We use our computers almost everyday and we have a 'Smart Board' which helps all of us. Our teacher doesn't have to take attendance or do lunch count anymore because we can go up to the smart board and check the word 'present' and for lunch count we can make tally marks. Please visit www.dragonpagoda.blogspot.com for more information on how our computers are used.
Sincerely,
Cheyanne