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Kids Graduate from High School and Fall Into the Gap


Senior Editor, Joseph Garcia, of the Tucson Citizen offers his intuitive view on the generational gap in technology: Kids need to jump on, ride technology's wave to future and that does not mean conquering PlayStation, surfing the Internet, or programming a VCR so that the clock isn't flashing 12:00. From Garcia's article:
"I believe the term 'technology' scared the kids away like beets on a dinner plate. ...We must first educate the educators. They can't teach what they don't know. Teachers need more training."

Posted by admin on April 1, 2004 09:36 PM |

Comments

while I wholeheartedly agree with this article(being from the techno-challenged spectrum myself) my question is how do we change this? I have a 9 yo son who has CP (cerebral palsey for the medical-babble challenged) due to his physical disability, I have been (for 2 years) requesting the school to support him by teaching him keyboarding basics - personally I am heck on 2 fingers with keyboarding!) But they don't see the importance of this! They say he'll get it in a few years - for him he will already be significantly behind. So how do we push the envelope? Where do we go to force a welcome to the new millenium in education?

Posted by: BARB | April 2, 2004 12:39 PM

Barb, thank you for your interest.

The Pennsylvania Department of Education web site includes a section, Resources for Students with Disabilities that includes several links that you may find helpful.

There are several articles on the

Family Village School - Assistive Technology for Students with Disabilities web site that you might find interesting.

Also, check out the Special Education blog... a whole list of resources and articles ranging from technology to integration to IDEA commentary.

School systems across the country seem to vary in awareness and interest to unimaginable extremes. That is part of the problem with a runaway Dragon...the technology moves on even when school systems chose to stick their heads in the sand (and other places...but we'll not go there).


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Posted by: Paul | April 2, 2004 03:00 PM