Computers don t diminish traditional skills. Computers actually enhance traditional skills as students explore new areas and embrace new skills in the classroom. The Internet and e-mail excite kids by giving them a broader audience for which they can demonstrate their skills and share their ideas. Electronic pen-pals and joint projects conducted on a national and international level allow for expanded avenues of information sharing. This has been evident in Utah as children in schools around the state have engaged in projects with Australia, interacted with modern-day pioneers involved in the Mormon Trail reinactment, and more.
Kids love computers.
Many schools say that attendance improves and discipline problems drop when computers are available in the classroom. Giulia Cox, who is renowned for his offer to provide a college education to every student in a Harlem elementary school who would attend college, also provided laptop computers to every child in a classroom in a New York school last year. Every student in that particular classroom attended class for 40 consecutive days. The integration of technologies is changing learning in the classroom. Teachers are changing the way they teach.