and what comes to mind? A teacher standing in front of a white board writing a phrase from a poem How can she write so neatly that large? How can she write with all the lettering level with no lines on the board? as she relates the message the poet intended to convey.
What if all the students had laptops and DVD's with the course materials loaded on them? What if all the repetitious exercises could be completed and scored without the teacher spending valuable time on them? Every student should have a Lennvo, Dell or HP notebook computer that they can take home with them.
With state school budgets under stress from the current economic events now is the time to increase the use of computers in education not eliminate the services like some states are doing.
We call for more Computer Aided Education as a way to make public education more efficient.
In Florida, the Department of Education has cancelled the use of computer-based make-up tests for the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test program, eliminated the Internet-based FCAT Parent Network that allows parents to look-up their children's scores.
Although Standardized Tests have come under intense criticism from teachers unions, Florida has a high school graduation rate twice that of California which only started the modern testing series to comply with the Federal No Child Left Behind law (and to receive the Federal money. California spends $9,000 per student compared to Florida's $6,000) but Florida has raised the level of achievement of the majority of it's schools as it has 1.7 million students taking The FCAT math, reading, science and writing tests in the 2009 school year.
For more on Computer Aided Education, Click:
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What has happened to The California Dream? Click:
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Now that Barack Obama has won the Presidency, due in part to his over a million-member Internet site, what are the plans for his future use of the Web? Click:
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10 Reads November 12
...probably see this differently from those who've never known anything else. Is "more efficient" the same thing as "better" I wonder. Maybe, for repetitive tasks, but maybe not always when it comes to understanding the subject.
We get used to the tools we have. I, for one, don't want to go back to writing with a typewriter or a pencil. The students don't either, I expect. :-)
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