After coming home many nights or staying late at school with mounds and mounds of papers to grade, I have cursed the inventor of paper and hoped for a time when technology would be integrated comprehensively in the middle and high school classrooms. We can feel that time coming but still have doubts of a smooth transition. One of the biggest complications I see is demographics. How can every single student in my middle school classroom benefit from the use of technology in the classroom when they don't even have computers at home?
I cannot solve this problem today, but I can give students the opportunity to use technology and save some trees. This blog is a start. Students can write their response to a question on paper, or they can respond to the blog post right here. They can write an essay on paper, or they can type it and post it right here. We'll see how this goes.
Maybe I can help a few students find their voices as they use technology as their new avenue of exploration.
