tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post740189958476894624..comments2023-11-03T06:32:28.410-04:00Comments on Staring At Empty Pages: iPods in schoolBarry Leibahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14205294935881991457noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post-18959340032416690772007-10-12T08:29:00.000-04:002007-10-12T08:29:00.000-04:00What struck me about the NYT article was that the ...What struck me about the NYT article was that the technology creeps into the classroom regardless. I work in educational technology research and I am often faced with people who scoff at the availability of technology, or whether kids and teachers will accept new technology. Technology in the classroom is not a question, it is a fact.<BR/><BR/>The question is "how do we most effectively use that technology?"<BR/><BR/>This article illustrates that the technology will be used whether we have research and curriculum or not. <BR/><BR/>I can't help but think if we'd had a more education-research-friendly and education-technology-friendly administration in power for the last 7 years, we'd be ahead of this game. But we saw an attitude shift towards readin', ritin', and rithmetic -- and testing, testing, testing -- a while back. And underfunded mandates. And underfunding research.<BR/><BR/>How's that working out for us?<BR/><BR/>If this country really believes education is a problem, they have to start acting like it is a problem and apply some science. The Federation of American Scientists has listed the problem of education as one of its focuses. Currently they are encouraging research into the effect of games on learning. I don't know if that is the answer, but I think it's good to see the problem taken seriously by scientists and good to see that perhaps there is a shift away from technophobia.<BR/><BR/>On your issue of teacher training, it's interestingly timed as our center is, this week, trying to determine the demand for teacher training workshops and whether we can handle that demand and acheive our research goals.JP Burkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16796725364997136448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post-39547349171471127532007-10-11T18:52:00.000-04:002007-10-11T18:52:00.000-04:00The Defense Language Institute uses iPods for trai...The Defense Language Institute uses iPods for training - they're very useful, I understand.The Ridger, FCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01538111197270563075noreply@blogger.com