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Two generations and only six decades later, their grandson the student received twenty years of formal English and French education, from dozens of specialized educators on three continents. Today, their grandson the teacher has many new resources, but the challenges continue. I have one class of ten-to eleven-year-olds, access to educational assistants, consultants, administrators, seminars for personal growth, and technological education tools to deliver information to my students in our small town of Penetanguishene, Ontario, from anywhere in the world.

Why is teaching still a challenge? Children are still children, with all the challenges of yesteryear – discipline, attentiveness, self-esteem, peer and parent pressure, and homework. Another significant challenge is that students today reside in a big global village, with big global problems. In this new world, information arrives at lightning speed from all corners of the earth. This high-speed digital highway influences most aspects of their society. Financial services, health care, the military, government services, and transportation are a few examples of where high-speed data collection, storage, and processing have forever changed the way we do business.

This technological tidal wave has now arrived at today’s schoolhouse, revolutionizing how teachers teach and students learn. How is this happening? Computers, cell phones, digital whiteboards, student-response systems, projectors, the Internet, portable media players, software, and email are tools now available to front-line teachers and students.

What does today’s technology allow us to do?

• Access information in various formats from anywhere at any time
• Translate words instantly from one language into another
• Enhance geography lessons with satellite images
• Tap into the world’s webcams to examine our living planet or to interact with other classrooms
• Assess student knowledge using digital tools and adjust lessons accordingly
• At a single touch, access the world’s news programs, newspapers, libraries, and museums

Preparing students to be citizens in this high-speed world is a significant undertaking. As a first step, educators must start teaching with the technology tools their students will use as future leaders and problem solvers.

To implement technology in classrooms, schools must prepare front-line teachers. 6 Steps to Success in Teaching with Technology helps teachers learn about, adapt to, and embrace technology.

Step 1: Understand Why Before an educator can begin to incorporate technology effectively into her classroom, she must be a believer. Step 1 outlines the benefits of incorporating technology into teaching.

Step 2: Adapt Two adaptations must occur for success in teaching with technology. Teachers must adapt to technology, and technology must be adapted to teachers.

Step 3: Plan Having a good plan is a key to success. Step 3 prepares teachers for the Teaching with Technology world by reviewing important planning questions.

Step 4: Do Your Homework Before spending money, teachers need to understand technology options. Step 4 overviews the most popular hardware and software used in today’s classrooms.

Step 5: Implement Effectively Having the latest tools in your classroom may look impressive, but you must be able to use them to deliver quality lessons. Step 5 explains how to do this.

Step 6: Keep Up to Date Technology changes daily. Managing this moving target is a challenge for busy teachers. Step 6 shows teachers how to stay on top of the latest changes in educational technology.

6 Steps also includes helpful tips from my own classroom experiences, and a glossary of teaching with technology terms to help you begin this new and exciting process. Let’s face it-our world is changing. It’s time to learn, adapt, and embrace teaching with technology!

Lucas Kent is an experienced educator and author of 6 Steps to Success in Teaching with Technology which in now available on Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com and many other online bookstores.

The theory behind standardized testing is very simple. Every student is taught the same material in each subject so that a standardized test can be created and given to each of them. This will serve as a good barometer as to the student’s progress.

Those who support the theory say that with standardized tests there is nothing left to chance or discretion of the teacher. Every teacher is different and therefore every teacher has a different style of teaching, which includes how they create tests for their students. Some teachers create what would be considered difficult tests while other teachers create what would be considered very easy tests. In this case how well a student does on these tests would be directly related to the teacher they happened to get. With standardized testing and each teacher teaching the same material, this variable is eliminated. Thus, every student is taught the same, tested the same and therefore can be evaluated the same.

Those who are against standardized testing give the following argument. Teachers may not all be the same, but neither are students. To assume that each child has the ability to learn a subject at the same speed as another student is unfair. That is why many schools have several levels of classes which normally include advanced, regular and slow. This way students can be taught according to their abilities and not by some standard set for them. With standardized testing, the slower children have very little chance of succeeding. If they can’t keep up with the work there is no way, when test time comes, that they will be able to complete the test as there is a good chance that a large part of the material they never learned. By forcing the teachers to go through each unit of the course in a certain amount of time totally defeats the purpose of getting an education in the first place. Ultimately, the slower children don’t learn anything, are just pushed through and fail the tests anyway. This leads to greater drop out rates and more children facing a life of underemployment and unemployment.

Of course the entire argument on this subject is much more complex than the couple of paragraphs above. In the meantime, at least for now, standardized testing is winning the war. Most school systems have them. Some systems do well with them and some not so well. Usually it is the school system in the poorer district that does poorly with standardized test scores. Many times, whole classes fail their standardized tests, which are now required for a child to graduate from high school. Compounding this problem is no child left behind that pushes kids to the next grade before they are even ready. By the time they are seniors they have the education level of a 7th grader. When it comes time to take their final standardized test to graduate, they literally have no chance.

As was stated at the top, there is no current solution to the problem and no answer as to whether or not standardized testing should continue. The only thing that is certain is that it is a growing problem that will not go away.