Technology in the Classroom

Do you remember studying Shakespeare in school? I do. Tons of reading and tons and tons of papers! Classrooms today are taking a very different approach. In Arizona one seventh grade teacher is making her students use A LOT of technology to learn. They work on laptops in the classroom making blogs and even facebook pages from the perspective of one of the characters. They also picked a Kanye West song to express the emotions of one of the characters. The teacher affirms that this type of learning will be very productive and successful. The school district support technology in the class room has spent $33 MILLION dollars on these new technologies and as a result reading and math scores have improved since 2005, when they started using technology in classrooms.