Journal #6

Social Justice: Choice or Necessity, By Colleen Swain and David Edyburn
This is a great article that helps educators realize the potential danger when they do not allow all of their students to have full access and availability to the many forms of technology. Should funding for technology be distributed to all schools, making it a requirement to have these services available to all students? I strongly agree. The school environment should always be geared to helping students to become prepared for the interactive working world. Now more than ever professions are demanding their employees to know how to effectively use technology to lighten work load and usually help the company make larger profits. We are setting students up for failure if we do not make “Technology 101” as a class in the school setting. These courses should be held as mandatory not as electives, and within the curriculum the teacher should continually show the importance of learning these technology aides. I also believe that as the President Bush has endorsed the focus on Math and Sciences we need to focus our attention technology.
What is the effect of hindering some students from being able to learn or practice all the benefits of technology? This article showed how higher level school standards and almost all future employers will require the student to be proficient in technology use, so they are at a huge disadvantage when these technological resources are not taught or available. .
I also liked this article because it gave information about resources to help aides in technology and how it can better aide students with disabilities. This goes along with the section of the article which emphasizes ways teachers can use technology to be more effective in the classroom.