Unnaturally Enthused
Mavis Green (mgreen@earthlink.net)
Sun, 30 Mar 1997 18:46:19 -0500
Professional Development
Helping all teachers get connected would be a good starting point. It
would both enable teachers to share ideas with their professional peers
and help build a powerful constituency for further efforts to connect
classrooms.
Technology experts should try to build bridges to the education
community. To avoid any disappointment in introducing technology into
the classroom. Teachers should be ensured that they will be given the
training, technical support, and time needed to integrate networking
into the curriculum. Further, many people are not as naturally
enthusiastic about computers and networking as the experts are;so
user-friendly applications and advice that meet the needs of those less
comfortable with technology will help to spread the use of networking
through schools. Educators and others interested in promoting networking
in schools must become involved in the broader debate over the nation's
telecommunications future. In particular, we must seek a
telecommunications structure that is fully interactive. But since
students are most likely to acquire the higher-order intellectual skills
demanded in the Information Age only if they can participate in
communications networks as both consumers and providers of information,
our top priority should be to build two-way networks.
Mavis Green
Houston ISD