Of all of the people in the school building, as a group, no one
is more excited about using technology than the students. By sixth grade,
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can create and save a Word document and save it to the appropriate space,
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point slide presentation. Most, if not all,
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web address. Skills that students need to perfect are: conducting a search via
Google or other search engines; correcting work through Spelling and Grammar
Check; and using e-mail constructively and safely. Students also need to use the
computers in an educational tool, not as a free time activity,
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The focus
should be in integrating the curriculum with learning tasks that include
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This is what helps maintain student interest that is needed to retain knowledge.
Teacher training at the school level should be mandatory and include methods of
integrating technology. The district initiative does devote space to this plan,
but does not mention that it is for teachers to follow nor are the specifics
detailed.
Heath does mention that
websites will be published weekly that support the curriculum objectives and
that the Technology Facilitators would get together to write curriculum that
supports the content standards, but these are being put together by staff that
have little knowledge of the new curriculum and subject matter.
There is
much resistance to learning to use an electronic grade book or electronic lesson
plans because they are not mandated in the employee contracts. If staff does not
know how to use these simple tools, one wonders where this will leave the
students in becoming literate in technology. This is backward thinking. In the
next negotiation session, the school board needs to toughen up and demand
technological literacy from the staff.
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