"Let me tell you another story. This one time, I was at a coffee shop, and the girl making the coffee was hot, and she said something to me, and my response was witty and cute, and she laughed and it was funny and it made me feel cool. Then I drank my coffee, went home, and masturbated."
With special thanks to Todd Barry, who actually told this story first. Tool
Computers are tools. I agree. Actually, I wrote and received the same grant discussed in this article. It's called the Enhancing Education Through Technology competitive grant (more infor here http://www.cde.ca.gov/edtech/EETT/ ). It is a very strict grant, and the purpose of it all isn't just to reduce the student-to-computer ratio to 10:1 , but to develop an effective model of technology integration and professional development in middle schools. What it all boils down to is getting students and teachers to use teechnology in meaningful ways, not just surfing the web and IM'ing each other at lunch.
I think this is a worthy goal. We need to get our children using technology because technology isn't going away. It is more and more becoming part of the work environment, and having spent the past two years as a School District bench-tech, i can vouch for the fact that most of our staff have no clue how to use a computer. Hopefully our children will feel more comfortable with technology, but the only way we can make that happen is if we acclimate them.
Obviously, there are right ways and there are wrong ways to do this. This particular grant is an active measure taken by the California Department of Education to find the most effective, research-based, and successful methods. Is that such a crime?
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"Let me tell you another story. This one time, I was at a coffee shop, and the girl making the coffee was hot, and she said something to me, and my response was witty and cute, and she laughed and it was funny and it made me feel cool. Then I drank my coffee, went home, and masturbated."
With special thanks to Todd Barry, who actually told this story first. Tool
-------- O&A Party Rock!I'm sure that the people effected most by the PATRIOT Act aren't reading /.
Do they have broadband in Guantanamo?
Computers are tools. I agree. Actually, I wrote and received the same grant discussed in this article. It's called the Enhancing Education Through Technology competitive grant (more infor here http://www.cde.ca.gov/edtech/EETT/ ). It is a very strict grant, and the purpose of it all isn't just to reduce the student-to-computer ratio to 10:1 , but to develop an effective model of technology integration and professional development in middle schools. What it all boils down to is getting students and teachers to use teechnology in meaningful ways, not just surfing the web and IM'ing each other at lunch. I think this is a worthy goal. We need to get our children using technology because technology isn't going away. It is more and more becoming part of the work environment, and having spent the past two years as a School District bench-tech, i can vouch for the fact that most of our staff have no clue how to use a computer. Hopefully our children will feel more comfortable with technology, but the only way we can make that happen is if we acclimate them. Obviously, there are right ways and there are wrong ways to do this. This particular grant is an active measure taken by the California Department of Education to find the most effective, research-based, and successful methods. Is that such a crime?