The better students understand the learning process, the better they will use technology. People learn from people. People are on the other end of the information and ideas accessed through a computer. Students have contact with these people via software, bulletin boards, or face to face in discussions and group projects. Students can meet a lot of smart people through computers.
Computers make slow progress in class.
Children, computers, and powerful ideas. A guide for developing defensible programs for the gifted and talented. Blending gifted education with the total school program. Back to the Table of Contents Credits Prepared by Geoffrey Jones, Principal, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Fairfax County Public Schools, Virginia. The opinions expressed in this report do not necessarily reflect the positions or policies of OERI or the Department of Education.