I think that schools have always been afraid of change. Its apart of the American culture, we don't like change and its happening now more than ever. Especially in schools, there is a huge change from going with traditional schooling to technology advanced schooling. But, it was also interesting to read about the 1950's when televisions were brought into the schools and the arguments they had against those are similar to the ones people have against the new technology today. For example, page 36 says "in that they battle for the minds of students between learning and entertainment." If you bring in for example podcasts and allow ipods and cell phones in your classroom will this be educational or entertainment?
It was intersting to read that writing on computers leads to decerasing scores on pen and paper. That is somthing to seriously think about. Although, I believe that computers are always going to be apart of our world now I still don't believe that you should write off the pen and paper method. I believe that it is very important to teach a child how to write; call me old fashion.
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