I now understand how my digi-nats feel! I walked into my new classroom for the year and was taken back to Technology 1.0. It was a bare room with a single computer connected to the school's constantly blocked version of the Web. I was frustrated, disappointed and generally beside myself. No more Promethean board with the accompanying digital slates and activote devices. There's just a whiteboard- not even so much as an overhead here!
I get it now. When you've had access to the technology, something's missing when it's gone. Sure, you can read books and do worksheets, but I've seen Paree and the farm's looking pretty dismal to me now. All the lessons and enrichment activities that I've created will lie fallow until they decide to install a board in this room. Please hurry IT crew- I'm going through withdrawl!
How must the students feel when we ask them to put aside their technology for the better part of eight hours? Bored? Yes. Frustrated? Definitely. Challenged? Not by paper and pencil tasks! It's tough to do without the technology that we've become accustomed to and to my students I say: Kids- I UNDERSTAND NOW!!
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