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The ideal classroom

The recently published results of the NetDay Speak Up survey revealed an interesting model of what students consider the ideal school.

When asked to "describe a new school for students just like you--what would be the No. 1 technology you would need," the leading response from students in every grade was access to personal laptops they could take home.

Sixty-two percent of students in grades 6-12 said a mobile computer is integral to a 21st-century classroom. More than 40 percent of this group said a modern classroom should include cell phones, interactive whiteboards, televisions, digital cameras, video cameras, scanners, and CD/DVD burners.

Also, students expressed a strong desire to learn in a more hands-on way. They said they'd find math more engaging if teachers infused more technology into their lessons. They also said they want to explore science through technology simulations, field trips, and "CSI"-like problem-solving exercises, rather than textbooks.

Links:

eSchool News Staff, For students, eMail already is outdated, May 3, 2006. http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/PFshowstory.cfm?ArticleID=6297

Netday "Speak Up" survey results, http://www.dell4k12.com/netday

Netday "Speak Up" survey tool 2005, http://www.netdayspeakup.org/

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I prefer the classroom when i was young, simple and sweet memories.

Whilst the advances in technology have been a major enhancement to education and the modern day classroom there must be a line drawn. Technology for all its benefits can and does offer a an unwelcome to distraction to educators and, unfortunately, the opposite to the student!

Indeed technology plays a BIG role in whatever fields out there and that include education.

Getting one accustomed to technology at an early stage of his life goes a long way to cultivate a technological advanced mind.

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