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One of the big things that I learned this week is that others are asking the same questions I have. In the Pitler reading, the problem of student, parent, teacher communication was brought up with that all-too-familiar scenario of the student answering "I don't know" when asked what he learned in school today. Technology could help the problem with software (Inspiration and others) and a sense of tying in to how kids think by letting them set learning goals.

I think this will help the overall low level of education in this country, but only if parents truly stress to their kids how important an education really is. I am concerned that too many people see technology as a magic bullet that will solve all of our woes. I think this merely is an excuse that parents can use to justify their egocentric lives and disconnected families.

One tidbit I picked up also out of the Pitler reading was the website Rubrics for Web Lessons. It looks like something I can use in my classroom and in my group project for this class. I think it will help me to grade the projects I plan on having my students do more of by qualifying my assessments of their projects. Several other similar websites are listed and I plan to peruse them all.

Pitler, H., Hubbell, E.R., Kuhn, M., Malenoski, K. (2007).//Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works//, 20-31.

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/rubrics/weblessons.htm