Traveling exposes the digital haves and have nots.
Free Wifi is only as useful as the access. We no longer live in a dial up world, and spotty internet service in the hollows of West Virginia and in the mountains of Appalachia reinforces how critical the tools of modern technology have become, but how difficult life beomes when one cannot log on and open multiple windows or tabs and set goals for acquiring information, take action beyond entering the network password AGAIN, monitor progress toward attaining and transfroming information into something of value, nor evaluate the results.
Teaching one the outer edges of Silicon Valley and down into Monterey County, CA, I worked at schools had pretty good access, regardless of the number of computers (never enought, though one school came close to an ideal situation). In terms of profesional development within my discipline and toward feeling more like a Digital Native, I have turned to the NWP's website. Dedicated to improving writing, these teacher researcher offer cutting edge, practical applications for embedding technology withthe teaching. Between NWP.org and the differentiation strategies in this week's readings, I might just be able to drag my teaching fully into the 21st century.
Now to ponder Brigit's student population and offer a few ideas to give each child a leg up into the content.
-dd
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