I don't want technology to replace teachers, but where there are no teachers, or the teachers are overwhelmed, it can be helpful.
If high-quality content can be effectively delivered via technology, teachers can devote more time to creating innovative experiences, leading Socratic dialogs, or coaching students one-on-one in more targeted and focused interventions.
As technology plays a major role inside and outside the classroom, we want to make sure education innovation is accessible.
All too often, technology is treated as a silver bullet for perceived problems in education. This sometimes leads to knee-jerk investments, using scarce resources to invest in software or hardware without a clear notion of how either might actually empower learning.
New media's not very old, hence the word new, so we don't know a lot of things about new media and by the time you've taught it it's probably out of date. I think it's much more beneficial to have an experiential lesson versus a classroom lesson in new media.
Some students just don't like online class.
To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century. If school is preparation for the real world - a real world that is increasingly technology-driven - then to ignore technology is to become obsolete.
We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.
Let students use technologies in the classroom.
