Seldom have we had a critical comment from parents at our technology efforts, and, more often, they have expressed a desire to make certain that each child has more frequent opportunities to interact with the technology. This has created a lively conversation within the School Board regarding future funding of technology. And this has been a very difficult question to answer, for the successes of our professional and student experiences with computers are not easily quantifiable. Posing the question has caused us to pause and reflect upon the nature of technology in the schoolhouse. We did not overtly mention increasing test scores.
Technology is all smoke and mirrors and in the end adds nothing to a student's skill development.
As we proceed to develop our uses of technology in the classroom, we will continue to look for correlations between our students' experiences using computers and their achievement in standardized testing, and we will look to the work of researchers to highlight those points of connectivity. So, too, is it at Flood Brook. All rights reserved.