Just as Dr. Strange said, Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint are not the tools that we need to learn to be successful in the world of "technology", so the same is for pencils, crayons, and construction paper.
If you think about the people around us, children are teaching adults how to do things on computers. The age is getting younger and younger. Elementary school-age kids are getting laptops and cell phones. Pre-schoolers are getting i-pods...that was never even heard of when I was a kid!
I think it is important for the classroom to be technologically savvy. I do not think it should take the place of an actual teacher, but for these wonderful tools to be used to aid in learning and to make it fun...and to keep the students up to speed with the rest of the world - I'm all for it!!! Children are all about computers, and probably know more about them than some of us do...so why not put them to use in the classroom and let their learning soar????
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I agree! Why not?
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