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One-to-One Facilitation
When students have anytime anywhere access to the Internet with laptop computers, projects provide excellent opportunities for teachers to help students take responsibility for their own technology literacy and subject area knowledge. Imagine a school where:
- Student learning is seamless across the curriculum, and technology is always present but rarely the focus of attention or the subject of discussion.
- Students select appropriate technology tools for each subject area and use their tools efficiently and effectively throughout the school day.
- All students have access to a variety of online sources and databases both at home and at school regardless of their socioeconomic status.
- Students confidently write, revise, and edit in a variety of styles for a variety of audiences.
- Students quickly collect and analyze data in a variety of subject areas and create charts, graphs, and other visual representations of relationships among data.
- Students routinely demonstrate their understanding of big ideas by producing authentic artifacts, such as publications, presentations, and Web sites.
Strategies for One-to-One Facilitation >
Because laptops empower students to take responsibility for their own learning, teachers must design lessons that take advantage of the capabilities of wireless laptops and engage students in subject area content. Co-planning of technology-enhanced, student-centered lessons helps to ensure that students productively and responsibly use their laptops as learning tools throughout the school day.
Techniques for One-to-One Facilitation >
When every student has a laptop computer and wireless access to the Internet, classroom teachers, technology specialists, and librarians can collaboratively establish rules and procedures. Ideally, traditional distinctions begin to give way to an anytime, anywhere learning environment in which the computer laboratory and library follow students wherever they go.
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