-> Despite my less than wonderful experience with a particular school
-> and particular admins this (now) past school year I, and a dozen or
-> so others, are still very VOCALLY advocating for increased use of
-> computer technology in the classroom at all grade levels.  Two or
-> three of us attend every school board meeting and manage to get on
-> the speakers list.
Hi Bob,
I have two reactions to this. The first is that is good to see you and
the others active in your school system. The other reaction I have is:
why are computers necessary at every grade level including lower ones?
What type of skills, etc. do you expect to see taught that cannot be
done (or done as effectively) without the computers?
Don't get me wrong. I'm pushing for more computers at our school as
well. I'm just curious as to why you see them necessary at your
children's school.
-> We are currently pushing for paid release time and paid training for
-> elementary teachers who need to learn how to integrate the existing
-> machines into their routines.
This is a very good plan IMHO. Without the teachers being trained how to
incorporate the computers, they will likely just sit in the classroom
unused. Do the teachers see them as a necessary part of classroom
instruction? If they do not, they won't be too motivated to use them.
I'm just trying to convince my department at this time that it is a good
resource tool. We aren't actively trying to convince teachers yet that
they would be a good instructional tool for classroom use.
-> we shall see what changes we can effect but it is agonizingly slow...
-> just too stubborn to give up I guess..
I can relate to that! (Not a stubborn bone in my body ;-)
Sheila
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