Relax teachers! No laptop will ever replace the "good" a good teacher can do for a student.
What a laptop / activity / software / internet can do is make available to a student information / resources / experience that any particular teacher does not have / know / have-access. What I have been told by good-intentioned / over-worked / bigoted / dumb / ignorant teachers is don't-think-about-it / no-one-knows-about-it / we-don't-do-that / learning-about-it-is-dangerous / etc. / etc. / etc. What I believe a laptop / activity / software / internet can do is facilitate empowerment. "empowerment." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. 30 Mar. 2008. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/empowerment>. "To equip or supply with an ability; enable: "Computers ... empower students to become intellectual explorers" (Edward B. Fiske).", _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
