Monday, January 3, 2011

Is this what happens to our kids coming to school?

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One of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite movies and I'm not even really a baseball fan.

Today's students are living in the future while they must go back to the past when they come to school. Prensky refers to it as powering down.

Basically it is the idea that students have access to more technology at home than they do at school.

What the real problem to me is that some students want to bring some of these same tools to school yet we won't let them. Our district as well as I'm guessing most districts will not allow a student to access the wireless signal of the district.

As technology becomes more and more pervasive more and more students have their own laptops/netbooks. Parents buy them with the intention of the student using those same tools for learning yet we as schools do not allow the students in the building with their new learning tools.

When will this change?

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