Because a computer is just a tool - a powerful educational tool, but nonetheless, as dull as an encyclopedia, a calculator, or a piece of foolscap. That is, until a teacher makes an inspired connection*. Add this extraordinary tool to the many teaching strategies you already have and...
Watch the walls of your classroom dissolve.
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Here's an inspired connection*: take your students on a field trip to collect specimens. Back at school, teach them how to identify plants using the UBC botanical databases (and - the skill of database research).
Here's some editorial comment:
When is the computer the perfect tool for learning?
When is the computer a hindrance to learning?
photo courtesy of Jane M. Sawyer (morgueFile)
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