Of COURSE you need to empower students. What I'm saying is that the program will be more successful if you also empower teachers. A lot of the needs are the same - access to materials for learning - but one of them is different - tools for keeping track of learning. <br>
<br>Actually, to be honest, good tools for tracking learning could be used to keep track of one's own progress too.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Kent Loobey <<a href="mailto:kent@uoregon.edu">kent@uoregon.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Relax teachers! No laptop will ever replace the "good" a good teacher can do<br>
for a student.<br>
<br>
What a laptop / activity / software / internet can do is make available to a<br>
student information / resources / experience that any particular teacher does<br>
not have / know / have-access.<br>
<br>
What I have been told by good-intentioned / over-worked / bigoted / dumb /<br>
ignorant teachers is don't-think-about-it / no-one-knows-about-it /<br>
we-don't-do-that / learning-about-it-is-dangerous / etc. / etc. / etc.<br>
<br>
What I believe a laptop / activity / software / internet can do is facilitate<br>
empowerment.<br>
<br>
"empowerment." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,<br>
Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. 30 Mar. 2008. <Dictionary.com<br>
<a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/empowerment" target="_blank">http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/empowerment</a>>.<br>
<br>
"To equip or supply with an ability; enable: "Computers ... empower students<br>
to become intellectual explorers" (Edward B. Fiske).",<br>
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