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Response to Fischbowl

In Response to Carl Fisch's post on the necessity of teachers being technologically literate, I fully agree. I, being one of the people he refers to that calls themselves "technologically naive," am not proud or comfortable with my lack of computer knowledge, and that is why I am trying my hardest to learn before I become an educator. He points out that there are certain standards that we all must adhere to in order to be successful, and if we haven't reached those standards, given a certain amount of time, we should be required to move on to something else.
The writer of this post didn't sugar coat his message. He essentially says to educators and those involved in the process of teaching others, "to either get with the program or get out! " Don't be part of the population that blames their ignorance on being naive, it just won't work in these modern days of communication.

Learn About The Lives of Japanese Elementary School Students

For this inner city Japanese school in Tokyo, reaching out to other Japanese kids overseas is a priority. Their website: www.tjf.or.jp/shogakusei has plenty of information to keep their peers updated on what they are missing in their great country. The school is grades 1-6 and has approx. 500 students, and operates on a trimester system. The 6th grade classrooms each have a website with a brief biography on their students and teacher. They all bring different interests and information to the site. I was impresses with their philosophy that they aim to cooperate with each other in everything that they do and that it is okay to make mistakes, school and friends are there to help correct them. They love corresponding with with foreign students through their blogs.

Small English School Incredibly Busy

Ambleside Primary School in Cumbria, England is very proud of their small school, and with good reason. Not only is it a beautiful building in a breathtakingly gorgeous area, but it is a very successful place in which the parents, teachers, students and community all play a part. The vast majority of the content on their web pages are made by the students. It was nice to see that the school encourages the arts as well as academics. They offer links to view their students art, poetry, music, classroom work, and projects. Their are direct links for students to obtain outside research, as well as an abundance of references for parents, such as: www.bbc.co.uk, and www.pin.org.uk. The school has international contact with other schools around the world, but has regular contact with a school in Africa and one in Australia. They share email, lesson ideas and jokes. The principles of each school has visited Ambleside Primary to extend their gratitude for reaching out to them. The school's website is www.amblesideprimary.com

School of Excellence is High Tech

McDougle Elementary School in Chapel Hill, is a North Carolina school of excellence. It is a relatively new school, built in 1996 and is on the cutting edge of technological education. They have a computer network that has an ethernet 10/100 base -t backbone. Each classroom has six multi-media computers with supervised internet access. All classroom web pages and projects are governed by their web page policies and rules. They have a video network that consists of 4 DVD/VCR's for school wide viewing, cable tv, video bulletin board and a satellite dish. Their webpage http://www.chccs.k12.nc.us, has links for parents, teachers, administration, and the community which encourages all to be involved in preparing for life in a complex, global society.

Elementary School Bloggers in Oregon

Carus Elementary School in Oregon City, Oregon started out in 1969 as a small county school with ninety-one students in grades first through sixth, but like most communities it experienced a massive growth in the seventies and eighties. By the mid-nineties, Carus unified with three other local districts and now have a teaching and support staff of 515, and a student population of 5,500 in K-12. With the influx of population, it was necessary to keep up with the rest of the mainstream of America, which meant becoming technologically savvy. I was highly impressed by their website. Not only does have all the information one would want or need about the school and faculty, but it provides Internet search databases for teachers, administration, parents, and students. The school website is http://www.carus.canby.k12.or.us
Some of the search engines they provide are: http://www.linktonetTrekker, http://www.Novelist.com, and direct links to their local public libraries.