Technology Integration

This noon a 4th grade teacher asked me if she could “send” to all the laptops the URL of the page I wanted students to access. I asked her, “Why not put them on your web page? Then the learning doesn’t have to stop after the bus leaves the school yard” “No,” she replied, ” I don’t have a web page, but I need to learn how to make one.
“They’ll just have to type the addresses in, ” she said.

Of course that’s a complete waste of time. Technology has come so far, and it’s so very easy for our teachers to add to their web pages, that there’s little reason why students need to do more than to click on links and to remember where on the page the links are.