Finally, time to surf… just a bit
As things have slowed just a bit – budget complete, social studies review meetings completed until January, essays and social studies tests graded – you know the situation if you’re a teacher. Well, I still have to type grade card comments, but it always seems to get done. Okay, back on task. I’m finally finding some time to surf the web and catch up with netvibes. This morning, I added Blair Peterson’s Blog to my netvibes. He is my former principal in Ecuador and is now in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Graded. His school is beginning the 1:1 program next year and he’s where we were five years ago… so many issues and questions.
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His blog is about students who received “lecture style” instruction for an Algebra class, versus a class with computer-aided instruction (CIA). According to article, Blair references a study completed by Robert Wynegar and Mark Fenster entitled Evaluation of alternative delivery systems on academic performance in College Alegebra. The study showed the lecture style students actually outperformed the CIA’s. It’s interesting to see the opposing viewpoints. Like so many of us who support this age of technology, Blair ends with this statement: “Help! I need to better understand how to respond to these types of studies.”
Hmmm… interesting, but I do have few questions.
How would college CIA instruction differ from that of MS or HS?
Are the college professors well-trained in using computer technology?
What are ages of the students in the college algebra class?
This is algebra, but what about the other disciplines?
I could go on, but before we dismiss the fact the CIA is worse than tradtition lecture to get tests results, much more information is needed. Also, this is only a snapshot, and a deeper and more in-depth study would be required. I guess I need to go further.
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