You do all, you use many teaching methods, and explicit teaching
is still there, but there is also a lot of inquiry, project based, so that
the children are managing to learn how to learn for themselves.
>> There you go.
>> So it really wasn't an issue for
me, because I haven't been teaching for 30 years.
If I would've been, I, you might get a different answer.
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Someone else that would be, but that's the
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I would just say to try to look at it as a tool,
and then as a tool, how many uses can you find for it.
So that in every one of your lesson plans you might think throughout your day oh, oh
I could use this to teach math, or, how can you
bring it in because it, in that it doesn't have to be in a huge formal lesson.
It can be in small ways as well as larger ways.
I found that it's worked for me, and that once you
start think of it that way, that you will find more uses.
I think once you get past the first use, the first time that you, I
remember at the very beginning when I
was a parent volunteer using the older computers.
I think maybe I was maybe a little bit nervous then.
There was all this talk that if you pressed the delete
button, everything would be lost forever and we didn't understand it.
But the more you use it, the more
you understand it, the more comfortable you get.
And I know that everything's going to
change again next year, and the year after.
But once you have that basic knowledge that in a general way...
>> Mm-hm.
>> This is the way things work, and that you
can problem solve, then you lose that fear or [NOISE]...
>> With the laptops, definitely there
are issues, the students themselves were telling
you they find the iPad minis more durable than they did the laptops.