Why Wireless?

The post I chose to read was Fischbowl's best post of November 2007 "Why Wireless?". As Arapahoe High School was opening its wireless network for personal use (for students, teachers and parents), there were some concerns popping up in the community about this practice. No one wants students to get off track in class, and I know that it is easy to do when you have the whole internet in front of you. The great learning opportunities that the web brings outweighs those concerns. It also gives those students access to useful school sites like the Campus Portal (grades and assignments) and Teacher Web Pages (assignments, notes, handouts and presentations).

Students today need all the opportunities we can give them to learn. So much is expected from the youth today. I never had assignments in high school (or before) that required internet use. This generation relies on the internet for both school and personal use, so it is a great idea to open up the network to the students. The blog states, "We feel that to be successful in the 21st century, our students are going to need different skills, abilities, and habits of mind than we did in the last century." They need not only need those different skills, abilities and habits of mind, but they also need to be able to learn them at a rapid pace to keep up with the changing world around them.