Student Teachers: School District Turns to Kids for Help with Tech Upgrades
Young 'digital natives' called upon to help older dinosaurs learn 21st Century skills.
As the Wauwatosa School District moved ahead rapidly to upgrade to the latest digital technology and information systems – open mail and document sharing, iPads with open applications, e-readers and more – it found it had a problem. Easy as they seemed to be to use, these technologies were largely unfamiliar to a large number of teachers and staff, who were expected not only to use the devices and software themselves but were also supposed to teach students to use them and to work them into the learning curriculum. So Jamie Price, the district's technology coordinator, had to turn to the experts for help. The kids. "There's been a significant increase in teacher interest" in the new technologies, Price said, enough so that planned teacher-…
Conservative Digest
7:15 pm on Friday, September 2, 2011
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