If you go to a situation where the computers are one-to-one, where every
child has a computer, be it a cell phone computer or a mini laptop computer,
then all the learning activities, all the learning resources are on that device.
It becomes the conduit then for the curriculum and for the artifacts the student
creates. In some sense it does replace or certainly augments the paper and
pencil materials. As Cathie pointed out earlier, the problem was that the
computer was used as an add on. The major part of the lesson was still done on
paper and there might be one activity that you did on the computer but that
activity wasn't integrated with the rest of the pieces of paper. The computer
wasn't playing an integral role to the lesson. But with one to one, it becomes
possible for the computer to play an integral role.
CN: Which is the way it is in business. Most business people
do the majority of their work on their computer. Pencil and paper tends to be an
aside or an add on for notes. When we start talking about teaching children 21st
Century Skills, teaching them how to use the computer for the bulk of what they
do is certainly a 21st Century Skill.
ST: Certainly, so long as it's not just teaching the
technical means to do a PowerPoint presentation or write a paper. It's about the
critical thinking that goes on.
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