Tuesday, September 27, 2005

weblogg-ed

I found a blog that is all about technology in the classroom. weblogg-ed is run by Will Richardson, a self described "blogvangelist" and the Supervisor of Instructional Technology and Communications at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, NJ. This blog contains a huge amount of information about new technologies and their uses in the classroom, pod-casts, and a very long link list to actual classroom blogs.

I am finding educators and technology working together in ways I would never have believed before I started this project. Richardson is running a pilot program at his school with a pc tablet that I plan to learn more on. Check out his page for a description of a Spanish teacher's use of the tablet in the classroom ( Saturday, September 17, 2005).

However, as amazing as everything described by Richardson is, it doesn't escape my attention that many schools are not going to have the opportunity to provide "smart classrooms" and pc tablets anytime soon. What does this mean to our students as a group? How can a student who is lucky to get a couple hours a week on on a computer in the school lab going to compete with students who have smart classrooms and teachers armed with tablets and i-pods? Richardson himself says, "if you're not willing or able to get literate in the ways of the Read/Write Web, you will either become irrelevant or left behind." (Thursday, September 22, 2005)

*****Again, please visit weblogg-ed at: http://www.weblogg-ed.com/ to see what else Will Richardson has to say and show.****

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