Week 11- Critical Issue

The article Using Technology to Enhance Engaged Learning for At-Risk Students makes a strong case for the use of technology in classrooms. Classrooms rich in the use of technology provide meaningfu learning experiences y incorporating many different learning modalities. For exmape, such classrooms often promote the use of higher order thinking skills or promote cooperative learnig strategies in the classroom. Such activities help at-risk students develop relationships with other students and have tremendous power to help students obtain, organize, manipulate, and display information.
Unfortunetly, one of the problems for teachers is that in many casesthey do no have access to this type of technology in their classrooms. I know from experience that we are often lucky to have a personal computer to work with. Hopefully this will change in the cominig years with the price of computers and computer peripherals coming down.