Today in class we were asked the following question: What impact will the increasingly interactive and diminished size of computers, communicators, and handhelds have on education in secondary schools?
I answered: I have yet to see the gains from today's personal technology in the classroom. Although a minority number of students have cellphones and/or ipod-type devices, none of them use technology in the classroom to help with assignments. All of them have computers at home, and most of them use them for e-socializing, and occasionally homework. I have not seen a lot of "tech-head" kids who are really into cutting edge equipment.
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