Those six students then share the information with others, acting as coaches in the early stages of project development. Students, Kimball cautions, must be monitored when they're on the information highway. Navigating the Internet can lead to sites with sexually explicit photos, language, or other inappropriate material. There are a lot of sites that are not appropriate. The program, paid for through a grant from the university, provides methods of curriculum integration for word processing, spreadsheets, electronic presentations, and Internet use.
Participants then train colleagues in their school and model technology integration.
As a result, teacher collaboration has increased along with the implementation of technology-based teaching. Still, Ms. K says, computers have limitations in the education of children. I find them exciting, but they cannot replace teachers and books. They cannot put a Band-Aid on a child's scraped knee. They cannot touch human lives in truly human ways.