Making Everyday a Technology Day
Mary Scroggs Elementary is ready for the 21st Century Skills. Good thing too, in case you didn't know we are already 10 years into the 21st century. This school is not find ways to use technology as an aide to teaching. It is use technology to as a tool for learning. The students don't just go to the computer lab to type papers, or learn a new form of technology. Rather the students are immersed in the technology as it is being used in the real 21st century world.
The technology is being use to understand, evaluate, and analyze their world. The technology is being use to apply knowledge and create a rich learning experience for not only students, but teachers and parents as well.
What's the Price of Censorship?
Great question. Let's ask Google and China.
I looked at the title of this article and my liberalism came flooding out. How dare someone take away the right of free press. Then my conservative right side of my brain began to fight back. In the blog post Grace Rubenstein stated that a school newspaper was not allowed to print an article about a recent superintendent's resignation. The school stated that inaccurate details and lack of evidence were to reasons behind the restriction of publication.
Grace points out that the school should let the students publish and if then the article is indeed invalid the students will learn how to retract a statement. She compares it to trying to learn science with out experimentation. Good point, but do we just give the student a chunk of uranium and say have at it?
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