Technology and Learning
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
pic from PBS HAWAII.ORG
Students have the right to demand equal access to a good education even if it means the need to remote into the right course online. The web needs to become a utility that all citizens have the right to access. It is during periods of budget cuts that the education system shows its commitment to underachieving students to be weak. While the district schools that state it is not their fault that students fail, they also fail to admit the fundamental problem that one approach does not fit all students. The use of technology, especially the web, has been shown to bring access to learning.
The public library is a critical source of such access and the Internet has opened this resource, where distance and time prevented access previously. The public library system should be incorporated into all public schools as their library resource to equalize access. This will further increase library access to neighborhoods and be safe havens for learning.
