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Every day educators must remember two things.1) We are not teaching subjects. We are teaching children.2) Children are more than test scores.Every day educators must do two things.1) Be aware of how you are supporting your children in doing work that is worthy of the world. 2) Ensure each child knows that they matter.

Teachers deserve a chance to begin teaching at a school that holds high expectations. Yet they are often required neither to prove proficiency in technology nor to practice the use of it in their classrooms.

The teachers would become capable technology users who would understand that the opportunities that instructional technology affords can make the practice of teaching more efficient.

Always have engaging activities on hand to keep your students on task and learning. Students will misbehave if they have nothing to do, don’t give them the opportunity to be bored. Technology is a great way to fill those extra minutes with critical thinking and problem solving activities.

A good teacher is continually learning. Technology makes it easy to extend your learning by offering professional development on demand. Professional development will keep your teaching fresh, current, and will remind you of what it is like to learn something new. Teachers who are continually learning make empathetic teachers, they understand how frustrating it can be to learn something for the first time.

Even academically reticent students publish work prolifically, subject it to critique and improve it on the Internet

They demotivate learning and good teaching.

Restore arts, music, shop, P.E., dance: Kids need the soul-stirring learning that lets them move, make, sing, create, dream.

“The first television broadcasts were of a man in an armchair with a microphone — exactly like the radio! It takes a while for things to sink in, for us to realize what the possibilities are.

A blended learning model is useful for language teaching, too, Miller says, because there is a rote element in learning a language and “that’s something we can do online, out of the classroom.

But those repetitive, fill-in-the-gap grammar exercises are not a good use of classroom time. We need to make sure that precious face-to-face time is used for what it is best for: true communication.”

"Why is technology important?" there are now more than two decades of work that I think cannot be ignored, pointing to not only the positive impacts of technology in areas like basic reading skills and improved writing and helping kids do advanced work in mathematics and science, but also to the areas where we do need to do more work, where there is, of course, improvement to be made. And, as our knowledge of how kids learn and our technological capabilities grow, we should expect to continue to have to invest in research, in development, in evaluation, and then to be prepared to apply those findings in real application and real practice.

But even in that limited arena, there is research under controlled conditions that shows that students with access to good technology applications and good teaching learn more and learn faster than students who don't.

It is an initiative that we believe will make it possible for more students to come closer to our goals of higher academic standards and the preparation of our students with skills and knowledge that we believe and the businesses and parents believe are the essential foundations for life-long learning.

is incomprehensible that anyone today would argue that banks, hospitals, or any industry should use less technology.

becoming an increasingly vital tool in our information society.

More Americans are going online to conduct such day-to-day activities as education, business transactions, personal correspondence, research and information-gathering, and job searches.

If you think this is a stretch, replace the term ‘technological proficiency’ with the term ‘writing’. We now think of writing as not merely a tool for presenting one’s thinking

with the term ‘writing’

think of writing as not merely a tool for