קטגוריה: טכנולוגיה

מופיע כאן רשימה קצרה של דפים של תלמידי רמת רזים. יש בדפים האלה קישורים לפרויקטים רבים. (הפעלת הפרויקטים דורשת JAVA.)

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If we really want to make the most of it (new computer technology), we need to start thinking of computers more like paintbrushes and less like television

I can't usually fault them …, since my crappy inkjet in my home office is always out of ink too. However, the number of students who still don't think to email papers to an instructor is remarkably large. More importantly, the number of teachers unwilling to accept papers electronically is remarkably small. All this means is that schools and parents bear the cost of printing when electronic means exist to easily exchange and view files.

As a result, formal handwriting is on the way to becoming more of an "art form" than practical skill, according to Katherine Boles , a lecturer at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education .

"Computers are just taking over," said Boles, who taught third and fourth grade at the Edward Devotion School in Brookline for more than a quarter-century.

It's hard to imagine that someone, somewhere is spending more time writing on a computer than by hand. Thankfully, there is a voice of reason from a reliable source:

"Those who earn their living by teaching handwriting" (I'm not making this up) "say it has not been supplanted by e-mail and text messaging."

• 53% of high school students were at or above grade level before 1:1, and now it’s 78%
• 59% of middle school students at or above grade level before, and now it is 76%
• Prior to 1 to 1 laptops, 25% of high school graduates entered college.  Last year it was 79%.  84% have already been accepted among this year’s graduating class
• Teen Pregnancy rate was #2 in North Carolina.  Now it’s #18.

After seven years, there was literally no evidence it had any impact on student achievement — none. … The teachers were telling us when there’s a one-to-one relationship between the student and the laptop, the box gets in the way. It’s a distraction to the educational process.

This is the week that the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project begins, and as such, is a major turning point in our field – perhaps the key turning point.

Two interesting tidbits that I recall from the technical part of the movie (in case you don't watch that part). First, in real world testing, the wireless mesh network worked at a distance of two kilometers. Wow. Second, there's a "source" button on the keyboard – push it, and the kids see the source code for almost anything they're running. They want these kids to be curious and to mess around with this computer – in other words, to learn.

המערכת הזאת מסירה את מגבלות הגישה של הילדים, ובזכות שקיפות ההפעלה של המכשיר, לחיצה אחת על אייקון הדפדפן תתן להם גישה לעולם החיצוני. בלי חשש, הילדים יוכלו לקרוא חדשות בעזרת קורא RSS מובנה, לעיין בוויקיפדיה ולהוריד ספרים אלקטרונים. המכשול הבסיסי בדרך ללמידה – הגישה לידע – פשוט נעלם.

ב-MIT החליטו לא לשים שום מחסום, וצירוף מקשים פשוט מעלה את המסוף ונותן לילד גישה אל מאחורי הקלעים של מערכת ההפעלה.

לא מחשב כמו שאנחנו מכירים, עם חלונות ומעבד תמלילים שהילד צריך ללמוד כדי להיות פקיד טוב כשהוא יהיה גדול, אלא מחשב שתוכנן על ידי אנשי חינוך כדי לעזור לילד ללמוד על העולם.

All of this, of course, raises the question about teachers and their roles and reactions. Will teachers see this as an advantage or a threat? How will teachers figure out how to use these new tools and how to integrate them into their teaching methods, curriculum, and classrooms? These are not new questions. What is new is that this is all going to happen extremely quickly and without much warning or planning.

has no significant impact on student performance

a $2 billion-a-year industry

One of the issues in contention there is a course called Computer Applications, where students learn to use the Microsoft Office suite (sans Access, thank goodness) and keyboarding. The question that nags at me this morning, as I get ready to catch my ride over to the school, is this, “Are computer applications something that should be taught in a class, or something that should be learned by the students, independent of a class curriculum?“ I guess what keeps tugging at my thoughts is the idea that anyone who can figure out how to play World of Warcraft or The SIMS can probably figure out how to use a word processor. They probably will not learn all of the features that they might be taught in a class, but if you can figure out the basics, then any other specific feature is only as far away as a little time at figuring it out.

רכישת מיומנויות מחשב תוך כדי עיסוק בתכנים רלוונטיים ומשמעותיים לילדים, יחד עם הוראתן הישירה בעת הצורך

How to use computer classes bore me to tears. Technology is a tool we use to acquire, process, and communicate knowledge. It can’t be taught in isolation.

This portrait of a digital native is particular to the year 2007. It is not what we would have seen 10 years ago, and it's definitely not likely to resemble what we'll be seeing a decade down the line. So when we, as adults, bandy about the concept of technology literacy, inherent within that is the knowledge that technology and the digital native are constantly evolving.

to "collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts, and other audiences," and "use a variety of media and formats to communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences"

creativity and innovation now top the chart of standards identified as essential for students and that cultural understanding and global awareness have also been elevated to crucial skills.

It paints a fascinating, and for some people disturbing, portrait of the cultural difference that exists between teachers and today’s students when it comes to understanding the role of media in everyday life.

I keep thinking about how the students and the teachers reacted differently. Over the years, kids have acted out all sorts of playground role-playing games, from the cowboys and Indians of my parents’ generation to the Dungeons & Dragons adventures I used to play when I was that age. Kids always take their role-playing cues from iconic motifs of their surrounding culture, and today’s kids are thoroughly immersed in digital culture, including YouTube. So I can’t say I’m shocked that kids would want to play video journalist with cardboard camcorders.

The pens improve quality of work because they force children to take care, and better work improves self-esteem.