Arkansas Teachers Explore Digital Writing

Date: August 23, 2010

Summary: The Northwest Arkansas Writing Project helps teachers and students connect through technology in the classroom by creating digital lessons.

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I've seen that Arkansas is years behind some states as far as technology in the classroom," said Goering, an assistant professor of secondary education. "Students' lives inside school are different from their lives outside school. They use technology all the time outside school. We can learn to use their technological connectedness to reach them in the classroom."

Teachers at the invitational, who came from schools in Benton, Faulkner, Sebastian and Washington counties, expressed concern that technology in classrooms was not being used to its full potential.

"This has been exciting," Goering said. "This is where we need to go, this is where we need to push. I'm disappointed when I'm out observing our pre-service teachers in classrooms and technology is not being utilized or students and teachers don't have access to it, either through artificial barriers like firewalls or through the dearth of technology in the classrooms. Digital is here and it should be embraced. I dream of walking into classrooms across northwest Arkansas and finding every student with access to a laptop, especially if they are doing more with them than just typing final papers."

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