Over Troubled Waters

Posted by Kenneth Ronkowitz on

I've been paying more attention lately to reading K-12 educational technology magazines and web sites.

It's depressing.

No Child Left Behind, tests, more tests, standards without financial support or authentic assessment. And in the schools, content filtering that blocks the good with the bad, computers locked down so tightly that they are often not useful for teaching, metal detectors at the door, less state & federal aid and local budgets being defeated by citizens who can only vote to stop spending in one area - education.

Ban cell phones, ban blogs, ban Wikipedia. And now, according to a report on macnn.com, schools like Mountain View High School in Idaho started recently banning students from bringing digital media players to school. Teachers had discovered that some students were downloading formulas as well as other material on to the portable players.

How do you address instructional technology when the technology can't be used for instruction?


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