Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Technology and the endless possibilities!
The children these days have so many perks because of all the technology being used in the classrooms. There really is endless possibilities with everything you can do, and many, many things to keep children engaged with the topics at hand. The only thing I am hesitant about is calculators. Calculators are nice to have, but should not be introduced until later in school. I remember having to memorize the different math tables and different ways to find the answers to the problems, and because of not having the use of calculators we were forced to know that stuff. Now days the children are encouraged to use calculators, which like I said is nice but if they get them to early then they will never learn the basics that I still use on a daily basis.
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Calculators can be a great tool. However, I agree with you. It is import to not have our students always depend on a calculator. I find myself struggling even with simple multiplication problems because I have used a calculator for so many years.
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