Sunday, June 5, 2011

Banning Student Containers

The hesitance on the part of many schools to allow student access to mass media instruments can be understood.  In fact I believe it is a lack of understanding as to how to "manage" new technologies which prevents their classroom introduction.  Change can be difficult and often occurs over long periods of time. Yet in each instance of change there was a first time, an initial experience that was different than each previous.  I think as educators we can all agree there are numerous benefits and endless possibilites we have yet to explore through technology.  I think the question is how does one initiate this change?  Am I the only one who thought Dan was a more productive young man when he was home than he probably was when he was in school?