Technology, Children, and the Power of the Heart
By: Cindy Bravaco
September 18, 2003
The primary focus of this article is to teach or give educators a better understanding of how children grasp new technology. The article stated that many teachers are stuck in the transmission or "lecture/demonstration" type of teaching. It seems that lecturing is best used in transferring simple knowledge but ineffective for more complex learning.
The article described two different events. These two events differed in that one event gave the power of technology to the child and the other kept the power with the instructor.
Journal Writing Event
This demonstration was done in several first grade classrooms. They established a student mentoring process by electing several students in class as the Journal Experts. The showed these students how to keep a journal of their class events and how to make entries into this journal. The journal simply contained the day's date......
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