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How would you respond to these statements if they were made by a teacher at your school or a nearby school? Press the Discussions button above to reply.
1. //“…technolust- a disorder affecting publicity-obsessed school administrators nationwide that manifests itself in an insatiable need to acquire the latest, fastest, most exotic computer gadgets, whether teachers and students need them or want them. Technolust is in its advanced stages here., where our administrators have made such a fetish of technology that some of my colleagues are referring to us as “Gizmo High.”//

2. "//Of course, the big question isn’t whether teachers like spending their time learning one new gizmo after another, but whether a parade of new technologies will help kids learn. From what I can see, that’s not the case. Says one math teacher: “Math grows out of the end of a pencil. You don’t want the quick answer; you want students to be able to develop the answer, to discover the why of it. The administration seems to think that computers will make math easy, but it has to be a painful, step-by-step process.”

3.// //"I see the same thing in my classes, especially when it comes to writing essays. Many students send their papers in over the Internet, and while the margins are correct and the fonts attractive, the writing is worse than ever. It’s as if the rule is: Write one draft, run spell check, hit “send” and pray."//

//4. " Our school went with ceiling-mounted LCD projectors but nixed the idea of laptops for all students. Our philosophy is to have whatever technology our teachers want to do their jobs better available to them. Technology is just a tool, not an end in itself. It will never replace good teaching.”

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