"Messing about with Technology" and requiring teachers and offering students the class. I
might even have them be in the same class.
In my mind the teachers require this learning as much if not more than the students. Heck
invite the parents as well.
David F. Withrow
Director of Technology
Harford Day School
Bel Air, Maryland 21014
voice: 410 809 2406
fax: 410 836 5918
cell: 443 876 3422
skype: dfwithrow
http://www.harfordday.org
"What we want is to see the child inpursuit of knowledge, and not
knowledge in pursuit of the child."- George Bernard Shaw
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.
- Yogi Berra
A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> writes:
>I got a lot of good ideas, and then I started thinking about what got me
>into using computers 25 years ago. It was the fact that they had become
>tools that could help me with two things I loved, which were writing and
>music. So now I'm thinking about the title of *The Electronic (or Digital)
>Toolbox and You*, with the following description.
>
>*Description*: The visionaries of the 1960 had it all wrong when it came to
>what computers would be doing. They saw them crunching numbers and
>controlling things; no one saw them as being the intimate parts of our lives
>that they are now. Definitely no one saw them being used as they are now in
>ways that have as much to do with number crunching as a fish does with a
>bicycle. What the computer has done is enabled us to take tasks that used to
>need many different skills and types of equipment, and do them all halfway
>decently on a rather inexpensive little box. This class is designed to take
>you through some of those skills that you
r
> parents would never have dreamed
>of.
>
>Any comments or opinions? I know they're out there.
>--
>
>keg
>
>========================================
>Keith E Gatling
>Email: keith@gatling.us
>Blog: http://wordfromg.blogspot.com
>Website: http://www.gatling.us/keith
>The fact that I'm open-minded doesn't mean that I have to agree with you.
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>
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