Wednesday, September 10, 2008
One to one
This was a awesome video show how the laptop program has help enhance the teaching and learn within the Denali School District. It help to eliminate paper waste, bring more up to date information in the classrooms and also seemed to encourage the students to learn how to use the growing world of technology in a profitable way. This program also help the teacher with more teaching tools helping to make teaching more effective and give teachers less tedious work. The only down fall that could really be seen is lack of hand writing skills, which is become a dieing art.. of which I am unsure is really needed in today's world!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
5 comments:
I agree that handwritting isn't as important today as was in the past, but I still think that school cirriculum should have a handwritting aspect to it! It's good to make sure that people can write!
Handwriting is a good example of a skill that we as teachers need to evaluate. I'm not suggesting that handwriting is not important (it is important for a variety of reasons), but we need to think about how important it is and in what situations it's critical. Students write better--more fluency, more quantity) with word processors than they do with pencil and paper. How much and what kind of writing does handwriting enhance? An example might be note-taking--being able to take good notes when a computer is not available is a very important skill, and handwriting is part of that process.
I agree with Skip. If highschool graduates move on to college, they may not have laptops to take notes with. Handwriting may be a problem for them because they will hate it, but again, it is all up to the student whether to take notes or not. And in a way, I don't think handwriting is that important.
Handwriting can be a separate task that is not included when using the computer. The younger students definitely need to learn to write. However, most of the students that are in One-to-one programs are either in middle school or high school. By then they should know how to write. The computers have very nice programs that let you know when your grammar is wrong or when your spelling is wrong. I almost never do a lesson without running it through those checks before submitting.
Hooray for less tedious work!
Post a Comment