Monday, October 18, 2010
Technology Rich- Now Be Effective, Strategic, Amazing
This infographic places MRH Middle School's effort to empower students with technology in perspective. Each of our seventh and eighth grade students have a laptop computer that they can use 24-hours a day. Our challenge is to make this usage effective, strategic, and amazing.
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The statistic here which really scares me is the 37% of 12th grade students never using a computer for their school work. Seriously? What the hell are they learning about in school that even a simple Google search wouldn't be useful? Hello word processing at least? No wonder people complain about schools being irrelevant experiences for students.
ReplyDeleteI agree we really don't force them to use computers, heck most teachers don't use computers. Aren't we doing them a big disservice by not helping them meet their own technology expectations?
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