Teachers Using Pens and Paper in the Classroom “Not Fair” to Students, Microsoft Official Says
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Via: The Georgia Straight:
Pens and paper have no place in the modern classroom. And chalkboards? They should be banished from our schools too.
That’s what Lia De Cicco Remu, director of Partners in Learning at Microsoft Canada, told the Georgia Straight ahead of the Microsoft Summit 2015 in Vancouver, which is set to be attended by around 200 teachers.
“When was the last time you used a piece of chalk to express yourself?” De Cicco Remu, a former teacher, asked by phone from Toronto. “Kids don’t express themselves with chalk or in cursive. Kids text.”
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