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egardless sf whether you like the man or not-he has embraced technlogy to get his message across. He has facebook groups, an email network, twitter tweeks, and the whitehouse.gov website flipped over at 12:01 (Yep I checked) . They have a blog, a wiki, and a page where you can email and comment. The New Pres. managed to keep his Blackberry, and set up dampening field around the White House.
Now here's hoping this will translate into using technology to teach kids in school. All the money WASTED on No Child Left behind (AKA Paperwork H-e-double toothpicks) could have been spent to wire schools, and place certified teachers in computer labs, to teach kids and staff alike how to use technology to engage students, provide differentiated instruction, and how to use the computer as a thinking tool. NCLB tried to imprint a busines model on schools- which is fine except for one major problems-Kids are NOT products.
Each child has his or her own special gifts. We take for granted that children learn to walk and talk at different times. Yet once in school AYP has pacing charts-saying where the child should be on any given day of the week in any subject. They should all be at the same place at the same time??????? Yeah right!!!!! Look around your office, your family, church or supermarket. Are all those folks exactly alike? Also let's not forget that children who live in poverty RARELY start and finish a school year in the same school. As their parents are tossed out-the kids go along with them.
Let's take the kids from where they are and challenge them to go as far forward as they can get.
No Child Left behind-left the child out of education. In order for schools to be successful we need to be able to keep the children in the same classroom for an entire school year. We need parents to value the education the schools are providing, and to not allow disrespectful and violent behavior in our schools. They means mre social workers , counselors and alternative schools. I tmeans well trained and paied teachers who are well versed in todays technology in order t perpare children to become thinkers, and problem solvers.
egardless sf whether you like the man or not-he has embraced technlogy to get his message across. He has facebook groups, an email network, twitter tweeks, and the whitehouse.gov website flipped over at 12:01 (Yep I checked) . They have a blog, a wiki, and a page where you can email and comment. The New Pres. managed to keep his Blackberry, and set up dampening field around the White House.
Now here's hoping this will translate into using technology to teach kids in school. All the money WASTED on No Child Left behind (AKA Paperwork H-e-double toothpicks) could have been spent to wire schools, and place certified teachers in computer labs, to teach kids and staff alike how to use technology to engage students, provide differentiated instruction, and how to use the computer as a thinking tool. NCLB tried to imprint a busines model on schools- which is fine except for one major problems-Kids are NOT products.
Each child has his or her own special gifts. We take for granted that children learn to walk and talk at different times. Yet once in school AYP has pacing charts-saying where the child should be on any given day of the week in any subject. They should all be at the same place at the same time??????? Yeah right!!!!! Look around your office, your family, church or supermarket. Are all those folks exactly alike? Also let's not forget that children who live in poverty RARELY start and finish a school year in the same school. As their parents are tossed out-the kids go along with them.
Let's take the kids from where they are and challenge them to go as far forward as they can get.
No Child Left behind-left the child out of education. In order for schools to be successful we need to be able to keep the children in the same classroom for an entire school year. We need parents to value the education the schools are providing, and to not allow disrespectful and violent behavior in our schools. They means mre social workers , counselors and alternative schools. I tmeans well trained and paied teachers who are well versed in todays technology in order t perpare children to become thinkers, and problem solvers.
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