I would even include writing, creating, submitting, and sharing work digitally on the computer via email or instant messaging in the category of doing old things (communicating and exchanging) in old ways (passing stuff around).
But new technology still faces a great deal of resistance. Today, even in many schools with computers, Luddite administrators (and even Luddite technology administrators) lock down the machines, refusing to allow students to access email.
Two big factors stand in the way of our making more and faster progress in technology adoption in our schools. One of these is technological, the other social.
The missing technological element is true one-to-one computing, in which each student has a device he or she can work on, keep, customize, and take home
A second key barrier to technological adoption is mo
But resisting today's digital technology will be truly lethal to our children's education. They live in an incredibly fast-moving world significantly different than the one we grew up in.
These "digital natives" are born into digital technology. Conversely, their teachers (and all older adults) are "digital immigrants."
So, let's not just adopt technology into our schools. Let's adapt it, push it, pull it, iterate with it, experiment with it, test it, and redo it, until we reach the point where we and our kids truly feel we've done our very best.
Oh I really like their step by step process to eventually be a teacher using new things in new ways. It makes this journey to learn technology more manageable!
Digital Literacy and Citizenship resources for teachers: includes lesson plans, curriculum by grade levels, and more. Cool stuff! I think you have to register to get access to all the materials, but some is available for free.
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