Les Chappell Article

I liked Les Chappell's article today called "Technology puts pressuree on education methods". The trends indicating that 5-7 year-olds are the fastest-growing technology market and that 70% of teens say they would rather give up TV than the Internet is a clear indication, to me anyways, that at the very least, concerned parents are going to have to figure out how to supplement their children's learning. The generation and educational gaps are simply starting to widen along the lines of Moore's Law and that is scary. Teachers and parents have to take on the challenge of jumping over that gap before it becomes a chasm.
~julz

How do we get back our kids' attention?

You know, it's not that hard getting kids attention. Keeping it is harder and keeping it when you have 30 of them to contend with harder still. I contend, however, that we (educators) just don't try hard enough to get their attention in the first place. Imagine a classroom where the teacher comes in every now and then with a cool lesson to share with kids. A lesson done with some digital gadget, like a lesson based on the cell phone, or on digital cameras, or palm blogging, or podcasting, etc. I bet that teachers would be more likely to get and more importantly keep student attention. I think we gotta go where no teacher (or very few anyways) has gone before, we gotta go mobile!
~julz