The one to one initiative has always intrigued me. I dream of the day every child has a computer to use at all times. When all textbooks and “worksheets” are stored on a harddrive, in cyberspace or beyond. All parents would have access to the Internet with the ability to communicate on a daily basis with their child’s teachers. A time when teachers can spend more time teaching and less time doing mundane tasks. The correcting of papers is done automatically on the class website, or wiki page or google assignment blog chat space. I will only write of the pros here because we are aware of the many cons at this point in time. But in the future all things are possible and that is what chapter 16 focused on.
How wonderful it would be if all teachers used the infiinitely vast information on the Internet. If the mundane tasks of teaching, those tasks that take us away from focusing on our students, could be done for us and we received the outcome of the work done by our students in a concise rubric, evaluation, graph , chart, database, or spreadsheet. I haven’t figured out how all the correcting could be done mechanically, but I am hopeful it will be some day. Then the machine offers a host of resources that will enable that student to move ahead. The machine will define the student’s weaknesses and plan a course of action, which will thrust that child into a wonderful world of learning!
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As for correcting and assessing student's papers, the website that goes along with our middle school language arts series, already has a basic assessment tool. Students can type in a paper, and the program will assess it for them. It points out major errors, but it does not take into account certain areas of writing like "voice", "word-choice" and structure styles. The possibilities are out there.
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Great optimism for the future of computers and student learning. I hope it comes to fruition as well.
Thoughtful reflection
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