Does increased access to technology lead to increased usage and integration in the classroom?
Does increased usage and integration in the classroom lead to increased student engagement, motivation, learning, achievement, higher order thinking skills, and creativity?
What does it take, in terms of technical, administrative, and instructional support, development, and classroom practices to get to the next level?
And the big evolutionary question: As computing in schools evolves from desktop access in hallway computer labs, to labs of portable laptop carts accessible in individual classrooms, to now ultra portable handhelds for ubiquitous computing, how will teachers and administrators integrate the fact that students can now have, in their pocket, easy access to the Internet and powerful tools for learning and creating?
Will the nature of teaching and learning change? Or, will we just continue traditional teaching in digital format?
Of course we won’t solve these types of questions in a June iPod Touch pilot. And these questions are not new to anyone involved with technology. But, hopefully, as more educators see these devices and understand the potential, more will understand why these questions are important.
Patrick,
First, thank you for the National Boards website. I have been using your timer set-up for practice. Second, my question related to the i-touch, I’m hoping you can answer. I am a teacher and would like to setup the i-touch to my school email. However, I don’t want to “push” my mail. Is it at all possible to set the touch to receive cab.server email? Looking forward to your possible answer.
I’ve used the Touch with my school email, but I believe the email is “pushed”. I’ve looked in the settings and I’m not sure if there’s a setting to change this. Sorry.