RPS provides teachers with digital tools by MAGGIE THELEN
Principal, Belmont Elementary School Quick! In 140 characters or
less, what do you think Abraham Lincoln’s advice to President
Obama would be? This may seem an odd question for those of us
born before 1982, but it’s nothing out of the ordinary for
today’s Twitter-savvy students. Otherwise known as digital
natives, Generation Y or the Net-Generation, today’s students
are unique, due to their level of Internet access and daily
interactions with computer-enabled technologies. “If we teach
today as we taught yesterday, we rob our students of tomorrow.”
While spoken by John Dewey around the turn of the 19th century,
these powerful words apply to us today and into tomorrow as each
new generation fills classrooms. How does today’s educator keep
up with the constantly evolving trends in instruction and
technology? Proudly, the Rockford Public Schools has taken
advantage of a program offered through Central Michigan
University in which in-district experts can d