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Water Cooler: Not Your Grandmother’s Classroom

April 11, 2011 |  by admin  |  Uncategorized  |  No Comments  |  Share

Today at Benchmark Education we were reminiscing about the days when we used a typewriter to complete all of our school assignments and went to the library to do all of our research.  Now a typewriter is as arcane as an abacus, and students look at me quizzically when I mention Wite-Out® (a staple in my high school English classroom). New technologies have transformed every aspect of our lives.   We now balance our checkbooks online; we buy our groceries online; and we chat with our friends online.  No part of our lives remains untouched . . . certainly not our children’s...

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