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To a B.C. (before computers) generation, today’s students are courageous thinkers, innovators and fearless warriors.

The Teacher’s Role in the New World of Blurred Boundaries

The Value of Private Space

key to teaching new literacy skills is to change the focus of student writing.

the value of a written essay lies not in its format but in the skills students develop:  identify a thesis, research and analyze evidence to test the thesis, and then present the analysis results.

Why must these skills be confined to a written format?

Except halfway through the piece, Randy Yerrick — an associate dean of educational tech at the University of Buffalo — makes the take-away point: The chief reason to use high-tech tools is when you want to teach in a fashion that has “no good digital equivalent”. Or to put it another way, only use computers in situations where you want to do something that can’t be done without them.

3) Dialogue. Computers also let teachers and students have dialogues that aren’t easily possible in regular face-to-face formats.

What can computers teach that textbooks and paper can’t?

Change isn’t just about technology, of course. Those things that a screen cannot offer – community, tuition, interpersonal dialogue, shared space and time – are only going to feel more precious amid the increasingly rich educational pickings online