Students Speak Up
To our national leaders about the importance of using technology for learning …
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"Technology is important to me because it makes things easier and you have more access to information that you can use productively and it can help me learn."
-- 9th Grade Girl, SAN JUAN HILLS HS, CA |
"Technology helps me with everything. It helps me learn, socialize, and be productive."
-- 9th Grade Girl, BIRDVILLE HIGH SCHOOL, TX |
"Technology is important to me because I am able to research and find the information I need online. Technology makes life easier. For example, writing assignments. When I want to change a sentence, you can delete the sentence no matter where the sentence is in the essay. If it was on paper, I would have to write the whole essay over. But I want unlimited internet access at home!"
-- 6th Grade Girl, ROBERT C. FISLER ELEMENTARY, CA |
"Technology use is important to me because that is how I find out my grades, homework, talk to my friends, collaborate with other students, type papers, do research and relax."
-- 10th Grade Girl, ORANGE HIGH SCHOOL, OH |
"How can these websites help us? in a lot of ways. If teachers had accounts on facebook, myspace, or twitter then they could interact with their students and show what is coming up because many times students make bad grades due to the fact that the teacher doesn't remind them of an upcoming test or quiz, and mostly kids are always on facebook or myspace or twitter and it would be a good way to ask for help if someone doesnt understand something or to communicate with other people outside of school. Students and teachers should definitely be allowed to access these websites during school and laptops should be provided for the success of the students."
-- 9th Grade Girl, KLEIN H S, TX |