Re: Future of computers in schools. Classroom or labs?
Mary Jo Hilpert (MJHilpert@aol.com)
Wed, 3 Jul 1996 03:50:26 EDT
Edtech Members,
I have read with interest the posts on computers in schools. In our
school, we are planning to use some of our technology bond funds to create
classroom/labs - classrooms with desks to both house the computers and to
serve functionally as regular desks for more traditional classroom
activities. We hope to provide an environment which will allow teachersand
students to integrate the computer as a tool more effectively into the
curriculum.
While labs are a very cost-effective way of introducing computers into
the curriculum, they are an overlay onto the curriculum and can never succeed
in becoming anything more. That is not to say that labs are not important in
a school - they are - but I do not believe that the use of labs alone will
ever achieve the "pencil/paper" tool use that will be part of the classroom
of the future.
Mary Jo Hilpert, teacher
South Mountain High School
MJHilpert@aol.com