by Joe Giampalmi, Deleware County News Network
The more I read about the importance of technology in K-12 schools, the more concerned I am about how little is being used in our K-12 classrooms today. Last school year I visited over 200 classes in grades 1 through 12. The uses of teacher presentations with technology and the requiring of student projects in technology can be counted on the fingers of both hands. I saw two outstanding teachers in special education math and honors geometry that represented state-of-the-art teaching in technology. In the class of special education math, students became so engrossed in a Smartboard math calculation game that they played well into their lunch period. Those teachers were the exceptions. Most teachers utilize the pedagogy of our grandparents — talking to sitting students.
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