Ten Reasons why technology is vital to education - 0 views
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information technology allows learning anywhere, anytime; not just in one particular classroom for forty minutes a day.
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students have access to the same tools over the web, they can reinforce the ideas by experimenting with the simulations themselves, any time, any where.
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Technology allows the tables to be turned. Instead of teaching (push), students can be given projects that require them to learn (pull) the necessary material themselves.
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Make a PowerPoint presentation, record/edit spoken word, do digital photography, make a video, run a class newspaper, run a web based school radio or TV station, do claymation, compose digital music on a synthesizer, make a website, create a blog.
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new digital world is the ability to work collaboratively on projects with others who may not be physically close. This can best be
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The Internet permits free video conferencing which permits interaction in real time with sister schools in other countries
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n technologies can permit them to break step with the class and go at a pace and order that suits that student better.
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extbooks and three binders easily weigh over 25lb. A laptop computer weighs about 5lb and provides access to infinitely more material via its own storage and the Interne
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Three t
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t. A 40Gb hard drive can hold 2 million pages with illustrations; the web is unfathomably large.
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tools for the same reas
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ns you do. They need to write, read, communicate, organize and schedule. A student's life is not much dif
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if education is about knowledge and intellectual skills, then information technology lies at the heart of it all. We have only just begun this transition. School will eventually look very different. Get ready.
