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Re: Technology and its future role in highschools...

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Originally Posted by Kyle
I think that technology will be show its self more and more in high schools, and not just the well funded ones. in the early to mid 1990's schools did not have fast or decent access to the Internet, now every school has at least a T1 line . Every minute of every day technology advances and becomes more wide spread. I think that one day high schools will all have automated parts of the school, whether it be small as automatic doors or automated teachers. The technology is coming, its just a matter of time.
That's true, however, many schools do not seem to think its important to have hands on technology. I.e. they will add computers, and tvs etc. to class rooms. But not new machinary or new material for science labs, etc.

For example in physics we learn about electricity and circuits, etc. but we don't actually get to see that in action. We don't build the circuits or see the effects by adding another load in parallel or series. Learning from a text book is great, but unless you put it to use you're not really learning and you will forget almost everything learned from "book learning". By doing it you remember and contain more. It's just a much more effective way of learning in my opinion.
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