Comments on: What could a teacher do with a laptop?

By: Mitch Royle

Mitch Royle — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:54:41 +0000

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By: Sarah ED205

Sarah ED205 — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:54:06 +0000

I went to a private school where all teachers had a laptop, but as said by curt, many of them only used it for mail and web browsing. There were a select number of teachers, and more now since my sister is still in hs, that are usuing their laptops to communicate with parents and let them know grades and so on.

I think that teachers need to be up to date on their technology, it is a very important learning tool, and especially since there are resources for children of every age.

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Along the Way » My Weekend PD for May 6-7 — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 16:30:05 +0000

[...] Jeff Utecht, on his The Thinking Stick blog, on several recent posts, talks about changing the model of PD we offer our teachers. In is entry entitled: What could a teacher do with a laptop? Jeff outlines several ways we could change PD: [...]

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By: Judith Sotir

Judith Sotir — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:32:40 +0000

If you find your staff development is irrelevant, say so. Tell the administration what you want to learn, and tell them what tools you want to use for learning. Too often SD courses are outdated and have no impact on teaching. I think it’s a two-way street… administrators need to be more in tune with staff needs, but staff needs to be more vocal and involved. The new tools…whether blogs wikis and podcasts or iPods and tablet pcs… have both academic value and high interest levels for both instructors and students. Academia is known for dogged resistance to change, but in the world that our students know, change is a regular occurence. Teachers need to accept and embrace change as well.

By: Curt Ingram

Curt Ingram — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 23:17:13 +0000

All teachers in the Manatee County (FL) are supplied with laptops!
However, a large proportion of these teachers are tech challenged. Most do not go beyond email and web browsing. I used my laptop constantly to blog, write and publish lesson plans, communicate with parents, build and update the school website, get new ideas for lessons on the web and create online learning activities and assessments for my students.

Many teachers feel that the new technologies are great, but who has time to learn them? Staff development is expensive, time consuming and, in many cases irrellevant, and is ofter resented by faculty who are under pressure from NCLB.