Day: September 3, 2005

The CDW-G Teachers Talk Technology 2005 survey reaches what seems to be a familiar conclusion. The subhead claims “Survey Reveals Gap Between Technology For Teachers And Technology For Teaching”.

Among the conclusions I found interesting:

The survey showed that teacher technology training has focused on administrative applications, rather than instructional applications.

Closing the gap between administrative use and instructional use appears to be more a question of where computers are located, as opposed to just the number of computers available. (locate more computers in classrooms)

Established, seasoned teachers indicate no innate resistance to classroom technology; in fact, the impact of technology on personal teaching style increases with teacher tenure (the assumption things will change when the future teachers now in college reach K-12 classrooms may be flawed)

Bernie Dodge is allowing access to his newest venture – QuestGarden. The site was developed to promote the webquest model and assist those new to developing webquests. The site is also intended to encourage a community approach. Users are free to modify the webquests developed by others to fit with different classroom requirements. The association of the project with the original author is maintained.

The title? I drew on my agricultural roots. Once the site contains a larger number projects I can write a new post – The garden has been seeded.