US/ND-1: Re: Educational Value
Re: Educational Value
Currie Morrison (currie@hale.ssd.k12.wa.us)
Thu, 29 Aug 1996 12:45:41 -0700 (PDT)
On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Mario Zinga wrote:
> There is talk about standards,....snip...but no dicussion about the
> educational use of access.
.......snip....... sorry mario!!!
>
> ....snip.... [[it seems to me that if we had a set of educational
objectives in mind, then the discussion could match legislative issues]]]
....snip.....
> -mario zinga
>
My feelilng is that Mario has made a siginificant contribution in getting
this discussion moving forward.
My feeling is that standards have been and are being set from a purely
technological and hardware standpoint already. For that area we should
push for lowcost devices and access that schools can afford.
However, much more important is how we want to use the access to enhance
our children's education and how we are going to train the milions of
present day teachers to not use this access but to use this access in an
enthusiastic way.
Waiting for the next generatin of college trained teachers is too long to
wait. This legislation needs to manipultated and a way that a significant
sum of money be spent on Training and acceptable uses of this technology.
THIS IS AN AREA WHERE BUSINESS SEEMS TO DO A MUCH BETTER JOB THAN
SCHOOL DISTRICTS. Why????
Cheers!
Currie
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