Remote Access: Whose Tools? Theirs.

Remote Access: Whose Tools? Theirs.: "WHOSE TOOLS? THEIRS"

A teacher in the computer lab had her students look up various geographic landforms and draw a picture of each one. I was going to point out to her that she could have had them make a slidesshow and just drag the pics they found into the appropriate slides when I realized that the kids were probably learning more by observing the photos and drawing them. Sometimes using technology is NOT an advantage (though technically paper and pencil are technology too, but you know what I mean...).

Dynamic Periodic Table

Dynamic Periodic Table

Cool for science teachers: an interactive periodic table

Words of the Woz

Words of the Woz: 

Interesting Interview with Steve Wozniak about technology and education:

"What kind of technology can revolutionize learning in schools? What role could technology play? It would [be] along the lines of enforcing individualized learning. If we could reverse some of the paradigms of education to let kids of different ages all participate together in a larger room, then the few human teachers would browse and help students with certain problems that somehow the computer can't. Each person would have a computer that would be very personal and go at different rates. Some schools work this way where they have third through fifth grade all mixed in. The computer would test a student every day and not let the student move forward until he or she has mastered a certain amount. It takes a lot of people running the system; the teachers in the class have to care a lot. They have to want the education to happen. Most teachers are that way. "