OPINION | UPDATED DECEMBER 6
Technology can be a crutch or an enhancement

The truth: there exist some teachers and students out there who are oblivious to technology. But bless their hearts, they certainly do want to try, don’t they?

Perhaps it wouldn’t be so annoying if they would just give up and move on to the lesson, but there are times when teachers become insistent on showing a PowerPoint presentation or movie clip that it becomes a bit obsessive and takes up a significant amount of the class period.

What’s the moral of the story? [read more]

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