“When I went to school, computers were put in a room called The Lab,” Bellow said. “‘What are they experimenting with in there, I thought.’ Technology wasn’t built into what we were doing. It was farmed off in a room, like it was special.
I have been opposed to "labs" for most of my career, other than curriculum labs where they are used every day for a class such as keyboarding.
Teachers used to send their students to the computer lab, and then have them come back to their room where they would teach them math, reading, social studies, science the old fashioned way.
I love having computers in my classroom this year. It is part of my classroom culture and can be spontaneous for learning. It was so frustrating to have to plan around using a lab.