Teaching with Technology - Part 1

Today I worked with a 9-year-old child with a language impairment on typing. I told him that not knowing how to type already has him at a disadvantage to others and that it is as important as reading and writing these days. (Of course I did this a little more tactfully than saying "disadvantage"!) We played games on the computer relating to math after we worked on typing, and I was amazed at how well he got around on a computer! He was using google to find other games and activities that would help him.

Between my job as a paraprofessional at a middle school and my other job tutoring after school, I see how students use technology, computers, and the internet as much and as importantly as a library full of books or a backpack full of paper and pencil. I'm amazed at what students know and how they're already ahead of the curve in technology. We must continue to steer them in the direction of using technology for their education.