Re: [school-discuss] Whiteboards

["Yishay Mor" <yishaym@xxxxxxxxx>]

some stuff here:
http://home.utad.pt/~leonelm/children/resources.html

but of course, you won't find any serious work that shows that simply interacting with a particular technology has any impact on learning. its what you do with the technology.

Also, there is a compelling body of evidence on the importance of physical, bodily experience for learning - esp. in your age. So the sand pit is still important, but you can do good by supplementing that with a Wii.

On 24/02/2008, Joel Kahn <jj2kk4@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Here is an excerpt from a recent posting on the
"Integrating Technology" section of Yahoo Groups:

"There are some teachers at my K-1 site that would
like to explore/pilot a digital whiteboard and
responders but are nearly shouted down by non-tech
folks who think that "more hands on 'learning' toys"
are better for 5 and 6 year olds. Do any of you
have websites or links that show K or 1st graders
using this equipment and learning something while
doing so? This has become quite an issue. How have
other people handled this?"

If any of you want to try to utilize this as an
opportunity to spread the word on FLOSS, send your
message to Nina Lowrey. Here's her address:

nlowrey@xxxxxxxx

Best of luck.


Joel




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