Why Integrate Science and Technology into the Curriculum?: The Reasons Are Many
There's a place for technology in every classroom.
Technology is ubiquitous, touching almost every part of out lives, our communities, our homes. Yet most schools lag far behind when it comes to integrating technology into classroom learning. Many are just beginning to explore the true potential tech offers for teaching and learning. Properly used, technology will help students acquire the skills they need to survive in a complex, highly technological knowledge-based economy.
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Science education is nearly extinct in elementary grades, study finds. Some of a new study's findings about elementary school science instruction in Bay Area schools: -- 80 percent of teachers say they spend less than an hour each week teaching science. -- 16 percent of the elementary teachers say they teach no science at all. -- Ten times as many teachers say they feel unprepared to teach science than feel unprepared to teach math or reading. -- Fewer than half of Bay Area fifth-graders scored at grade level or above on last spring's California Standards Test in science. To see the full report, visit www.lawrencehallofscience.org/rea/bayareastudy.
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