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I could wash my clothes on a rock but that doesn't make it the best way.
Not the same thing.
No they don't.I recently heard that when students step into a classroom they step back in time.
Not all of a student's time should be spent on a computer but a lot of great learning can happen there. One of the best ways to get a student to remember something is to attach it to something he or she already knows. These kids know technology.
Thats what extra curricular classes are for.
Why not attach the other things we want them to learn to what they know about technology? Take a science project. In my day we would have constructed our experiment and maybe a nice poster with hand drawings and hand written information. Now a student can accompany that same experiment with a power point presentation complete with video and graphs. This student is developing skills he or she is likely to need in the workplace.
Shouldn't the science project be about science not pretty printed charts,power point presentations and videos?