I believe the author has an important point when s/he says that the STUDENTS must learn to use the technology for their own learning. That holds true for ANY educational resource! Learning to look at a book and decode the words on the page means NOTHING if the student cannot internalize personal meaning and learning from those words on the page. Students must make the jump from "learning to read" to "reading to learn." As an ESL teacher, I see students who can decode well, (and it sounds like they're "reading"!) but they have not yet made the transition into being capable of using this printed resource to gain meaning and personal learning. (I can do that in Spanish -- I can decode with fairly good inflection and all....but I don't necessarily understand a word of it!)It's important that we get beyond learning to use the technology, and into learning to use the technology as a tool for internalizing meaning. Unfortunately, many schools are just in the beginning stages of obtaining the technology, so learning that technology (which is the FIRST step) must necessarily be the objective. My concern is that some people may confuse this first step as being the end -- not the means to the end!
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