http://blog.fourthlogic.com/2009/03/07/technology-needs-for-elementary-school-students/ DISCUSSING THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:59:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://blog.fourthlogic.com/2009/03/07/technology-needs-for-elementary-school-students/comment-page-1/#comment-640 Hipolito M. Wiseman Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:38:16 +0000 http://blog.fourthlogic.com/?p=146#comment-640 Hello just thought i would tell you something.. This is twice now i've landed on your blog in the last 3 days looking for completely unrelated things. Spooky or what? Hello just thought i would tell you something.. This is twice now i’ve landed on your blog in the last 3 days looking for completely unrelated things. Spooky or what?

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]]> http://blog.fourthlogic.com/2009/03/07/technology-needs-for-elementary-school-students/comment-page-1/#comment-34 S Cde Baca Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:48:15 +0000 http://blog.fourthlogic.com/?p=146#comment-34 I agree about the lack of quality user friendly elementary programs. But the problem is much deeper. It lives in the way we view the computer. What we are doing with the technloogy is thinking of the computers the same way we think of a game on the shelf or a book. They are tools that we dust off and use for a specific purpose. We need to think integration and connections. The units from "Journey North" where the curriculum is built into a blend of online tasks, e-mail and connections to the larger world is a start. We seldom use the power of even the slowest desktops to give an analysis of student understandings. The development of diagnostic assessments online would be a huge step forward...where they tell the student and the teacher what the student needs to focus on in terms of content or process skills. Connections to other adults who can help the student practice, refine and develop conceptual understandings is another arena that is seldom utilized. Of course, the management of such a system is a big issue. We put all that on th shoulders of teachers and require that they do that while they are managing a group of 30+ rowdy and rambunctous elementary kids...a tough task even without the management skills necessary to put together an online and a face to face curricula. So, it is time for a think tank of seasoned elementary educators to be given time to tink outside the box and look at the power of the computers and see what tasks they could delegate to the "32 idle machines in the room". I agree about the lack of quality user friendly elementary programs. But the problem is much deeper. It lives in the way we view the computer. What we are doing with the technloogy is thinking of the computers the same way we think of a game on the shelf or a book. They are tools that we dust off and use for a specific purpose. We need to think integration and connections. The units from “Journey North” where the curriculum is built into a blend of online tasks, e-mail and connections to the larger world is a start. We seldom use the power of even the slowest desktops to give an analysis of student understandings. The development of diagnostic assessments online would be a huge step forward…where they tell the student and the teacher what the student needs to focus on in terms of content or process skills. Connections to other adults who can help the student practice, refine and develop conceptual understandings is another arena that is seldom utilized. Of course, the management of such a system is a big issue. We put all that on th shoulders of teachers and require that they do that while they are managing a group of 30+ rowdy and rambunctous elementary kids…a tough task even without the management skills necessary to put together an online and a face to face curricula. So, it is time for a think tank of seasoned elementary educators to be given time to tink outside the box and look at the power of the computers and see what tasks they could delegate to the “32 idle machines in the room”.

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