Comments on: Does technology positively impact student learning? http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2006/09/does_technology.html Technology, leadership, and the future of schools Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:00:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Warlick http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2006/09/does_technology.html/comment-page-1#comment-15381 David Warlick Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://annahein.com/2006/09/does_technology.html#comment-15381 Scott, Thanks for this post and for pointing us to this important report from our friends at the Metiri Group. I would like to clarify, for those who may not take the time to read my referenced blog entry, that it's not that the question, "Does technology positively impact student learning?", is not an important question. It's that measured, standards-based performance is not the only reason for us to be investing in modernizing our classrooms. The fact that digital networked information and communication technologys are the pencil and paper of our time -- and children should be learning within the context of their time and their future. Anything else is just preparing them for the 1950s. Thanks again! Scott,

Thanks for this post and for pointing us to this important report from our friends at the Metiri Group. I would like to clarify, for those who may not take the time to read my referenced blog entry, that it’s not that the question, “Does technology positively impact student learning?”, is not an important question. It’s that measured, standards-based performance is not the only reason for us to be investing in modernizing our classrooms. The fact that digital networked information and communication technologys are the pencil and paper of our time — and children should be learning within the context of their time and their future. Anything else is just preparing them for the 1950s.

Thanks again!

]]> By: Scott McLeod http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2006/09/does_technology.html/comment-page-1#comment-15382 Scott McLeod Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://annahein.com/2006/09/does_technology.html#comment-15382 David, I actually am not sure the question matters at all. I think you're dead on when you say that we should be teaching and using the dominant communication paradigm of our time. In that sense, it doesn't matter. No one asked "Does the use of papyrus / paper / chiseled tablets" increase student learning? As always, I'm concerned that our leaders are stuck in old ways of thinking. David, I actually am not sure the question matters at all. I think you’re dead on when you say that we should be teaching and using the dominant communication paradigm of our time. In that sense, it doesn’t matter. No one asked “Does the use of papyrus / paper / chiseled tablets” increase student learning?

As always, I’m concerned that our leaders are stuck in old ways of thinking.

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