Teachers Without Technology

Posted by Kenneth Ronkowitz on


Einstein

No-Tech Teacher



Just sending those of you who read this blog but don't follow me or other education tech types on places like Twitter or Facebook to an article on The Chronicle site.

They call it "College 2.0: Teachers Without Technology Strike Back" but I'm not sure I would consider this to be in the College 2.0 category or how much of a "strike back" movement we have going in education, but... you decide.

It points to several teachers trying a no-tech approach including a University of West Florida teacher who banned laptops, cellphones, and such in his summer class in English literature and found that "The students seemed more involved in the discussion than when I allowed them to go online."

The Chronicle had earlier run a related (on the other side) piece on "Reaching the Last Technology Holdouts at the Front of the Classroom."


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