Warlick

DAVID WARLICK

A 35 yr educator and member of the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction, who now conducts presentation on the importance of using technology in the classrooms. He has written four books, and is the founder of two websites: The Blogmeister is a blogging website for both students and teachers. He also made the Cite Machine,which assist millions of users that struggle with citing works used in their writing. He also has a website called Landmark for schools, which has resources and tools for teachers based on content area. Teachers and students can take a virtual tour of Pompeii, Italy and see the city ruins or of Ancient Greece.

David believes that teachers and students should be engaged in a "Learning Lifestyle" which relates to the term most of us as teachers are familiar "lifelong learner". Technology in our country has changed very quickly and now requires us to rethink the way we currently educate our students. Two questions that need to be addressed: What do children need to be learning today and How do they need to be learning it? Are the foundations of the textbook, pencil, and paper as important today?

Warlick's goal is to persaude educators that technology's impact has more to do with the information than computer operation. Then the question isn't about right or wrong, it is about did it work or not. If a student is trying to make something happen on the computer, whether it works or not they walk away with more information. They know that what they tried did not work and in the future will know to try another approach. Children as well as Teachers learn from each other. Students learn by watching other students or asking other students. Teachers steal ideas from each other all the time to use in their classroom, or by just observing a lesson they may find useful. JF

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