On page 91 of Milton Chen's book Education Nation, he talks about the science aspect of combining technology with science. Students admitted that the "technology-rich project to be more challenging and time-consuming; however, many of the students also agreed that the project was more fun and engaging....concept of 'hard fun.'"
When I took the IM 422 (Media, Materials, & Methods of Inststruction), the professor asked us to watch this video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-666540182028461233#
One of the things that Clifford Stoll talks about is how technology and computers cannot be used to help students. Learning should not be fun, it never was and it never will be is another point that he makes. But going back to this idea of learning and fun, is it possible to combine the two?
Clifford Stoll uses the ideology of either/or, but in the 21st century, that is not acceptable to use. Our students need a curriculum that is based on them (a student-centered classroom) for them. What I mean by that is that students should not be taught in the same way that their grandparents were taught. That was a different era, this is a new age where it is integral that teachers adapt to the new technologies. One thing might happen if we do this, we could have some "hard fun" while learning how to manipulate modern technologies into "weapons of mass instruction."
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