This allows students to learn with technology slowly, but surely. Then peers can guide one another in the learning process, and certain students can help you with possible troubleshooting and repair of the computers. If you don't actively seek out these students, you will spend half of the year trying to find your crew. If you have trouble scaring up hardware and software, and most of us do on our school budgets, send a letter home to parents at the beginning of the year to let them know you want to use technology in the classroom. The word will get around very quickly, and hopefully you will end up with some donated equipment.
Remediation is a simple process for the individual student by repeating a lesson.
The challenge is in getting the hardware, computers, keyboards, and monitors to run the programs. It will be years before this hardware is supplied by many school districts. To sum it all up, I would like to offer some light-hearted suggestions to anyone thinking about making a computer lab in your class. Treasure Hunting around the Globe . A treasure hunting site written by an avid user of metal detectors to find treasures.