Technology Integration

This week a fifth grade teacher brought in the entire fifth grade, one group of 20 or so at a time, as they were typing their research papers. I was amazed at the four and five page papers they had written complete with bibliography. But what surprised me more was the way the computer was used as a typewriter.  No on line picture hunts. What I could determine, no on line searching, no use of Kidspriation to organize thoughts. Just the typewriter function of the computer.   This is a good example of substitution. Now the challenge is to move the cheese in a way that the teacher will be comfortable with the change. More on that later.