"Trust the Kids with Technology"

"Introducing the kids to technology begins in the first grade...", and "trust the kids with technology", these are two of the best quotes from this video and are from teachers in the Hawaii schools. The theory is that you can't just let kids who already know how to use computers use them. You can't just let the kids who are more advanced use them. Computers are hands-on and by using them can take them around the world, or be useful in their own communities. In a local harbor, they collected seaweed to test "specimens" and then share their findings with the rest of the school. They then make a film, and post on the schools website. This is one example of many different projects that are shared on websites for the school classes to share and learn.

Another cool project that was featured was the researching of their own family trees and creating pictures symbolic of their families.

I printed the article that listed 20 ways to incorporate technology in the classroom to use for the future! I loved all of the painless, easy ways and ideas that can be done to learn technology as well as spelling, math, science, etc... Great article!