Student View Summary

Here is the student summary of the 3 questions that were asked, complete with spelling and typos.

1. - having laptops in school
- creating a school network and instant messaging program from the students to use, somthing peer-to-peer, similar to msn or facebook.
- also a student to teacher, school based networks
- smart boards for every class ; implying more modern technology can make people more interested in the lesson and some students can relate to it and can learn faster, also having easy access to notes is a great innovation.
- using music/mp3 players in class (durung a study period not during lessons) ; with this students wouldnt be descussing to eachother about off topic conversations and students can consentrate more of their work.
- all textbooks on the computer ; having a virtual textbook would be much better, there would be less weight on childrens backs. because they wouldnt have to lug around all the different textbooks their teachers give them

2. - not very convinient ; many student going to enss (like myself) dont have high-speed internet, downloading pod casts would litterally take hours to download especially if they were video podcasts.
- if they were perhaps put on the school network it might be better
- not too many students own ipods so the entire thing seems redundent. you would be watching the videos on your computer.
- they could be used for reviewing lessons for texts and come podcasts could be created for a unit or exam review

3. - all depends on the class ; certain classes would obviously interperate more technology than others, any tech class will obviously be leading but math and science classes really benefit by the smart board technology, while classes like english wouldnt benefit much from smart boards and other technology, it would of course be used but not as much as other specific classes.
- everyone but maybe a select few, uses technology at home daily. there hasnt been a single person who hasnt used google search or wikipedia. obviously technology is a major advancement in everyones lives and is interperated into every students lives at home.

Interesting Links

http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/
http://www.heppell.net/weblog/stephen/
http://www.heppell.net/
http://www.iste.org


Have a look at some of these links. They are very infomative and highlight initiatives and thinkers who can inform our process. Onn the ISTE site have a look at NETS link and have a look at NET(S) and NET(T). These also might provide insight into some of the thoughts out there milling around.