After reading through a few of the articles this time I found one that really jumped out and grabbed ahold of me. The article"Technology brings False Promises to Schools," by Todd Oppenheimer hits the nail right on the head.
In order to be able to afford more technology school districts take money from programs such as PE, Music, Art, Shop, and Science labs. All these areas have been proven to build much broader intellectual skills than working on computers. Going the technology direction we have taken the quality out of education and replaced it with quantity. We are missing the boat big time.
I am not saying computers are bad but we should only them as a supplement and not the whole.Students the relationships developed between themselves and their teacher. This relationship brings out the creativity in our students. Kids need to be moving around, more muscle more memory.
We need to remember we need people ho can work with their hands as well as their as their minds. Schools need to not only train students to use computers, but train some to be able to take one apart and fix it. Even though we are living in a computer age, we need blue collar workers and we need students who have learned how to think.
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Amen, Lynn! Computers should be used to SUPPLEMENT the curriculum, not teach it! There is a ton of research out there showing that the arts have a great deal to do with learning and the way the brain processes information!
Kids cannot learn social skill without the interaction of a classroom teacher and their peers. We cannot raise a generation of cyber, techie, adults with no idea on how to interact with their fellow human beings!
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