Technology is good, but learning is even better. It was a flashback to an elementary school open house. She explained the sign-up procedure. The teacher didn't know. She was waiting for the kindergarten teacher, who was married to a programmer, to give her some ideas.
Computers can be a learning tool.
Or a waste of money and space. The KickStart Initiative calls for networking all schools and putting computers in every classroom. When her class was studying archaeology, students used the Internet to find information on current digs, and pictures of artifacts that the archaeologists were discovering. They can talk on line to an archaeologist. Spanish teacher Christina Sterrett has her students exchanging letters via e-mail with students in Spain.