Monday, May 4, 2009

Is learning about technology valuable to you?

5th graders,
You have sat in this, or another, computer lab for the better part of 5 years.

You have learned how to word process, make presentations, use the internet for research, and so on.

I have 4 questions, answer them in full and complete sentences with proper spelling and grammar...

Do you think learning about technology, and how to use it properly, is valuable?
Is it an important part of your education?
Should it be part of elementary school education?
What do you think middle school technology education will be like, what do you want it to be like?



Remember - Comment as "Name/URL" and use your first name and last initial (proper capitalization, no URL)- please respond in full and complete sentences - double check your work before posting your comment

23 comments:

Randy L said...

1.I think using technology is valueable but using technology is making it easier.
2.Most of it is important but your education is basted on writting and how you use your grammer.
3.I think typing should be in elementary school but, I really don't think technology should around the kindergardeners.
4.I want Middle School to be fun and the technology to hold off some of the time because even in Middle School people act unmature.

Rafael A said...

I think learning about technology is valuable because technology can help us in the future with our jobs in real life.

I think if you can not learn this, it can effect you later in life. I do think it is an important part of our education.

It should always be part of elementary school education.

I think middle school technology will be very hard because it will be more advanced

Ashley V said...

1.Yes I do think that learning technoligy is a very important thing to learn, because when we're older nowing how to do things on a computer can get us a job.
2.I think that technoligy is very important to our education because if we know how to use the computer and know how to use power point, and other word processers. I think if we can do this we won't have to wast paper on rewriting our writings
3.I do think that technoligy should be part of an elementry school so that the younger kids can get a head start on learning about the computer.
4.I hope that the middle school that i go to will have very upgraded technoligy so we will have more things to do. I also hope that our computer time will be longer so we can have a loger amount of time to finish our assingment.

Darrell C said...

Yes I think that learning technology is a good thing for us.yes its importantof our education so we can learn more about it.yes it should be part of elementary school education so we can learn and be better at it.i think that middle school technology education will be more better and have more computer classes and learning more better things.

Isaias P said...

1)Yes I do think that learning about technolgy is a good thing to learn. We could get better at it.
2)It is an important part of our education because we learn more. We could learn alot more show people what we know.
3)Yes because we are learning alot, maybe we could teach other people about what we know.They could teach us what we dont know,we could teach them what we know.
4)That we might learn alot of advance technolgy. I would like to learn alot of advance stuff, that I never learn before.

Jessica R said...

I think that technology is important because you might need it in your life when you grow up.
I think that it is an important because you are going to need to use computers in middle school for projects and classes.
I think that technology should be a part of elementary school because you might need it some where else.
I want middle school technology to be better than elemantary school technology like having up to date computers.

Chakayla A said...

yes i do think that it is valuable.Yes i think it is an important part of my education.yes it should be so that it could get us started for middle school.I don't really know cause im not in middle school yet ,but i think it will be alot more harder.I want technology to be like ,we can make our own websites and do all of our research and essays on the computers

Nicole L said...

yes technology is valuable because when we get older we will maybe have to use computers and other things. technology is important to our education because we will have to learn about computers because we will use computers and other things like phones laptops. Technology should be part f elementary school education because we should learn about computers and other things and it is fun learning about technology. Next year i want computer class two times a week because we should learn more things about technology. I think computer class will be more learning and more things to learn and how to make a web sites.

Isabel S said...

I think that technology is important because you might need for important stuff when you grow up.
Yes because lots of kids use it for homework to research the information about the thing person or animal.About how things work in the computer and how to block virus also to make a robot.

Christopher N said...

I think this is improtant to my edcation. It will help us in the futur. the sooner the better. That is what I think about having it in elementry school.
In middle school I think it will be cool. It will be cool because it will help me.Later I can do alot more things.It will be very fun.
Yes I do think technology is a part of my edacation.It can help me get a job. It will also help me progress. I can do more things in the futur.
I hope it will be cool. I hope I can learn more things. I can do things more advanced. I will be a better person at technology.

jordan b said...

1.yes i do think technology is important.
2.yes because you will need to use it.
3.yes it should.
4fun cool impirastionel.

Janis F said...

1- I think technology is valuable because you can leard a lot af staff in technology. You can leard a lot of staff on technology like looking for wed sides,and leard about what ever you want.
2- It is important education because went we go to middle school we have to leard a lot of staff of technology and that is why education is good to leard.
3- I think yes because the people that are learding technology, had to leard a lot of staff to leard the prosses about technology.
4- I think it will be about to put your own wed site on enternet for people can see it,or go to do some staff.

Mr. Casal said...

Some very good answers.

Some poor spelling and grammar (1 space after a period or comma Darrell and Chakayla, double check "stuff" Janis and "technology" Ashley), you guys need to double check your work before posting it. Remember, once it's posted there is no going back to fix. Check twice, post once.

As for me...
1) I think learning how to use technology properly is extremely valuable. Any piece of technology is only as good as the person using it. If you don't know how to use it properly and effectively it might as well be a shiny brick. Using technology properly can aid in your learning, entertainment, enjoyment of a hobby, learn a new skill or information about anything. Technology used properly can help you in every day life, it is extremely valuable to know how to use it properly.

2) I think technology is an important part of any one's education. Used properly technology can help you to learn a new language more easily. You can publish your writing with much higher quality than in the past. You can research information and connect with people looking for the same information. Technology opens your classroom up to the world and there is no better way to learn than having the world at your fingertips.

3)I definitely think technology should be a part of elementary school education. The earlier you learn anything the better at it you can become. Technology is all around us these days and the sooner you know how to use it properly the better.

4)Since I'm not a 5th grader I'm not going to middle school so I don't have any insight on that. However, as a former middle school computer teacher I can say that 6-8th graders usually get more time in the lab, cover a lot more areas of technology, and do more in depth research projects.

Good work everyone, just remember "proper spelling and grammar always!"

Nyalisse S said...

1) Yes i think technology is valuable. Being able to use technology correctly could benifit us in the future.
2) Not really I don't think technology is an important part of education. It is fun to do but it's not important.
3) Yes I think it should be apart of elementary shcool education.
4) I think middle school technology will be the same. One thing I would like to learn is how to build a websight.

Jeffrey C said...

1)Yes I think its importent to learn about technology because when we older we have to use computers and other things.
2)Yes it is importent to your education because you could learn more thing other than computers.
3)Yes it should be part of elementary school because they could get a head start in learning about technology.
4)I think it will be cool because it will be different from elementary school. I want it to be cool because I get to see things and learn thing that i never saw.

Justin M said...

1.Yes because when you get older you are goin to have to know all theses to answer question.
2.yes because when you grow up you are goin to have to do alot of work and you have to write alot.
3.yes because you're goin to have to know how to write fast because when you get older you need to write faster.
4.I think its goin to be alot of computer and I want it to be fun but it goin to have alot of work.

Carlos R said...

1)Yes, I think learning about technology, and how to use it properly, is valuable because you will know how to get information fast. If you have a thousand word eassay you won't have to hand write it. If you know about Microsoft Word you could type it. Or if you know somewhere else you could type something you could go there. It will be much faster typing than hand writting.
2)I think that technology is a very part about your education. You could learn about websites that help you in Math, ELA, Social Studies, and more.
3)Yes, I think that technology should be taught in elementary school. It could give you a head start in technology. It will also be even more fun.
4)I think that middle school technology will be more advance.I think that they'll teach us how to do things much faster. I also think that they'll teach us other ways that thechnology could help us. I want middle school thecnology to teach us more and help us more.

Diana R said...

1.Yes I think learning about technology is a valuable thing because if you don't know anything about technology you may damage a system that may cost a lot of money. 2.Yes techonoly is an important part of my education because I get to learn new things about technology and its programs. 3.Yes it should be part of elemantry school education because kids learn more when they are young. 4.I think middle school computer class would be more cooler, because you'll get to learn things that you don't know yet.

Joseline D said...

1) (Yes)I think it is valuable because we get to learn new things in technology all year.

2) Yes it is an important part of my education to learn how to use a computer.

3) (Yes) it should be part of elementary shool.

4) I hope the middle shcool i go to has great technology and hope it is fun.

Edwin P said...

1.Yes I think that learing about tehnology is valuble because it helps people reseach and help them find out stuff
2.I think it is very important because now people can use it for homework, research and so on.
3.It think it should be a part of middle school because it will help people understand tehnology and learn more about computers.
4.I think its going to be fun and cool to kids I think its going fun but hard at the same times.

Ayla G said...

1: Yes it is important because you might neeed to know this stuff later on in your life.

2: Yes I think it is a part of your education because one day you might need to take a test in a higher grade and you'll just look stupid not knowing how to use technology.

3: Yes I think it is ok for tecnology to be used by children in elemetry because they need to learn how to use it so later on in there lifes they already know how to use it.

4:I think that it would be cool because you get to go on a whole lot more websites that you can't go on now in elemetry, and you get to learn cool and new things.

Trisha c said...

Yes i think learning about technology is valuable to me because it shows the world where to go and how you use it.Technology is not always fun but it's interestingto learn adout new things.

Yes i thing it is important for me because it help you in the future and shows me new things like animations for lots of things and before i did not know a thing about a computer.

Yes i thing it should be a part of middle school because they may shows use lots of different things and maybe it will be much better and bigger than here.

I think technology will be bigger and better because they have more things and more technology to use and they have more experience in some things and we will learn things. I want it to be better and bigger and would like to see new things.

Louis D said...

I thimk that learning how to use technology propley is valuble because almost every thing in the worl is about technology. I also think it is a important part of your education to learn about technology because if u dont know about technology u can not use a computer,game boy and athor items. I dont know if it should be part of elamentry school education because thatz not very important like school work. I think it will be that they will show u how to use more technology stuff.I will like it to be fun.