In the last two days I've been treated to examples of an interesting range of educational tools. As I worked yesterday with a fifth grader I've just started tutoring, I enjoyed watching him set the alarm on his nifty watch so we would know when our hour was up, then start the stop watch ticking so we would know when he had read for 20 minutes in an actual book. Then we got out a little white board and marker and manipulatives so we could work through some math problems.
Today I spent some time with my granddaughters after school and watched the 7th grader assemble her science fair display. She had printed out narratives and graphs created on a computer and mounted them on a large display board with the help of scissors and a glue stick, while checking her school-issued i-pad to confirm that she had arranged things correctly. She then used the same i-pad to pull up definitions she needed for homework which she completed with a plain old yellow #2 pencil in a traditional work book. It's good to know that there are still some school tools that I know how to use. I'm sure you can guess which ones.
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