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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] It IS possible to use "screens" for effective instruction IMO[/quote]

I don’t think the issue is whether technology can sometimes be helpful. It’s whether the radical shift to a technology-dominated classroom for kindergarten and first grade on up has been effective for student learning, and the answer is resoundingly no. Students read less, write less, and learn less when instruction is focused on using technology.[/quote]

Well maybe its the radical shift to BAD technology that has been detrimental.

I see a lot of tech use in classrooms, and I think about 90% is bad, but 10% is really amazing ... at what it does.

The key feature to make the tech worthwhile is immediate feedback, but it has to be worthwhile feedback.

Silly games where kids move a character along some kind of path and then are asked to solve addition problems? And they fall through a trap door if they get the problem wrong? That's not good feedback.

An oral language program with speech recognition that asks a language learner to repeat a word, and then analyzes if the word is pronounced correctly (Joy School English)?  That's pretty good and almost replicates in person tutoring.

A program that would listen to a student decoding a CVC word and provide scaffolded feedback? Would be priceless if it existed.  One that just has them read "cat" and hit a picture of a cat? Much less useful.

Studies on tech use in schools haven't yet distinguished between the better and worse types of tech programs out there IMO.  
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