Document Type
Issue Area One
Abstract
When I walked from my house the 50 yards up the hill along the cliff above the Bering Sea to the school I served in the Alaskan Eskimo village of Elim as principal/teacher, I could see the satellite dish that had been installed to bring greater educational opportunities to the dozen high school students. I was excited that we had been chosen as one of the first sites to receive this technology as part of the Star Schools project. We now had the capability of receiving classes from all across the country. We were directly connected to Spokane where the five-state consortium was centered. This had so much potential to broaden the horizons and positively impact the education of our students. Did it? I don't think so, at least not dramatically in the time I was there. Just placing technology in our schools will not automatically affect learning.
Before we really talk about how and where students will use technology to learn, I think it is important to talk about what we should expect our students to learn. And not only what do we expect them to learn, but what do we expect them to learn through the use of technology?
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
6
Issue
1
First Page
37
Last Page
39
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1996 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and the University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Schwartz, Lyle
(1996)
"What Do Our Students Need to Learn?,"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 6:
No.
1, Article 12.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol6/iss1/12
