I think a lot of times technology tools, like teaching strategies, are misunderstood and misused. I remember visiting a teacher's classroom where she was having the students create avatars of the characters from the Carl Hiaasen novel "Hoot". They were clever, creative, and the kids were having a good time designing them but what exactly were they learning? How to create an avatar? What the characters looked like? How well spent was that time? It's interesting to think about the intended outcomes...
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I'm not a teacher, but I definitely understand where you are coming from. Sometimes it seems as if technology is just added without much thought to how it is supporting learning. I'm sure the students have fun with it, but it doesn't seem to have a purpose. Maybe some teachers are simply attempting to fulfill a technology requirement (I know very little about school requirements) or want to seem hip and relevant?
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