The WIRED classroom is an amazing website based on the use of wires to enhance technology in the classroom. With the increase in the advancement of technology from year to year, this article raises the question, "Are there enough computers and resources in each classroom to promote the continued growth of technology? At most schools each classroom contains about 3 to 5 computers. With each class having about 18 to 22 students is 3 computers enough for each student to receive adequate time participating and interacting with this technology. I believe that it depends on the way the teacher is integrating the use of technology into the curriculum. With my Kindergarten students I allow each of them about 15 to 20 minutes a day to use the computers on their own. I do this by integrating the computer use during centers. They use the computer to play educational games. It is important to give our students the chance to use the computers rather than just seeing it.
The article also ask the question, "What is a technology enhanced, student center classroom? "Connected to an exciting new world of hot and lively current information, students make meaning and develop insight while the teacher shows them how to navigate and reason through the labyrinth of new sources." As educator it is our responsibility to demonstrate and show students how to completely utilize networking and the use of these technology tools.By doing this it will help with our students success in the future.
McKenzie, J. (1998) The wired classroom:creating technology enhanced student-center learning environments. Retrieved September 15, 2010, from http://fno.org/mar98/flotilla.html
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