Failure Is NOT an Option

Failure Is NOT an Option: Collecting, Reviewing, and Acting on Evidence for Using Technology to Enhance Academic Performance
By Dave L. Edyburn

It has been a recent concern among educators of not letting children fall behind. The NCLB Act tried to fix this issue, but it still needs a lot of work. Teachers need to understand that some children are just not made to learn in the conventional and old style of teaching and it is too difficult for them. Teachers need to make the learning setting different, more entertaining and interesting for some students. Performance intervention needs to occur much sooner than it is, because we cannot not let the suffering students fall anymore behind than they already are.
This article discusses how we need to enhance our teaching to intrigue and gain the students attention. This has been showing a positive effect on the amount of knowledge children are retaining.

Q1. Why have teachers not caught onto the fact that technology is important to integrate into teaching?
A1. This maybe, because some teachers have it engraved into their mind that traditional ways of teaching are the best because they are what have been used since the beginning of time. Others may not yet have the opportunity to purchase the necessary tools to begin using technology in the classroom.

Q2. What should we do with the children who benefit by learning through traditional ways if there is such a large push on integrating technology?
A2. We should not eliminate traditional forms of teaching, just in addition to those ways also incorporate new ways of learning through technology.