I 'm just a bit bothered by the lack of knowledge that my students have about basic technology. I am even more put off by the lack of concern shown by parents and the school leadership. I have required that all my students own a portable memory device. I hear constant complaints able the ridiculous over use of printing materials. So I share info with students and parents via email and flash drives. You would think that I'm asking each kid for a pint of blood. I can't even teach a technology lesson with the assumption that students know how to type a paper in MS Word.
My little cousin who is in the 2nd grade in another county is required to have a flash drive and use PowerPoint. Never mind why I work in the stone age. How do I bring my school into the year 2010?
You are so right! I deal with the same issues. I've learned to assume nothing, even presumably simple things like copy and paste can be foreign concepts. I'm no longer amaze when a senior is using the enter key at the end of each line to double space a word document.
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