First Entry
There was a time when a variety of instructional strategies meant being treated to the glorious and familiar reverberating click of a film strip. It may also have included the occasional game played by the class or even some sort of handheld manipulative which at my school meant math based flash cards. My elementary years were during the late 1970’s through the 1980’s. Needless to say, technology was not at the forefront of the classroom. Oh sure, we were treated to an occasional trip to the special room that played host to the then new Apple II and being introduced to a game called The Oregon Trail…wow! Sadly, though the classroom strategy never veered far from everyone sitting quietly in neat little rows, listening to a teacher lecture on and on. Sometimes we were lucky to see something different through the use of an overhead projector. Over the years education has improved by leaps and bounds. Regardless of the naysayers who focus only on Common Core or state testing.