EduBlog Insights

eSchool News online published an article today, Ed tech: What do students want? They reminded us that students who want to speak out on the state of educational technology in our schools have until Nov. 12 to participate in Speak Up Day 2004. This is an online survey that gives our K-12 students a voice.

Excerpts from the article:

Approximately 40 percent of the questions on this year’s survey are new questions, Evans said. Topics will include timely inquiries into cyber-bullying, plagiarism, the educational value of video games, and what types of writing students do using technology.

NetDay also hopes to get a better sense for how schools are integrating technology into the curriculum. Questions such as “How do you use technology to help you learn about science?” and “When you are doing math homework, or assignments, which of these technologies are you most likely to use?” are meant to move the national conversation away from specific hardware and software applications to the value of technology in improving instruction.

The survey also gives students a chance to make suggestions for policy reform.

One open-ended question asks, “What is the one thing you would like to tell the next president about how you use technology for learning?”

I love that they are giving the students a voice but wouldn’t it be great if more students could have been introduced to weblogs as one of the ways to use technology in a most effective manner to integrate technology into the curriculum?

Get your students involved in this survey! The article links to some other articles relevant to the topic. eSchool News is a great site.

On another note, I’m really delighted to have the opportunity to post to the “Ed-Tech Insider” weblog that is sponsored by eSchool News. Clarity Innovations did the work and had the insight to pull it all together - great company!  Will, Tim, Tom, Steve, Tim W and some others are part of the group posting to the weblog - great company there, too! The RSS feed is located here.

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