Well, what jumped out at me from the Romano book was where he talked about the guy saying there were pieces of true revolution for schools everywhere, they just needed to be put together. I can see that in hindsight as a previous teacher. The problem is WHO Is going to do the putting together? Everyone thinks someone else should do it. Or everyone else thinks someone else is going to do it. And the pieces keep laying around. It is a shame that so much money has been thrown into technology for schools and they are where they are with it. And I guess everyone is to blame. The Education System just doesn't want to change.

I loved the idea of fax buddies in the kindergarten classes! Isn't that cute. That is a fantastic idea to teach technology to the children; however, there are schools I have been in who would not allow using the fax machine. So, it's a good idea if you have cooperative administration. I have worked in several schools and I've never worked in one that the parents were interested in coming and seeing how their children were doing or coming and participating. They sent their children to work every day and that was it. Of course I've always worked in low socio-economic areas, too, where the students didn't have computers at home, but the idea of being able to conference over the internet and have other school to family connections with the computer are great ideas. You just have to land where everyone has a computer either at home or one they can access. I love the duck hatching project where the students are in touch with people at San Diego State! The computer can take children anywhere! With a lot of planning on the teacher's part the students can do anything, go anywhere, or see anything right there from their classrooms! Someone needs to put those parts together, huh?