Youngsters all seem connected these days in ways their parents and teachers never dreamed of back when the older generation were youngsters. It’s not just the cell phones, Facebook messaging and Twitter. It’s the simple idea that everything is at their fingertips immediately and nothing else is necessary to do but query a search engine. The question comes up, then, not whether that’s a good or a bad thing, but how to explain to the connected generation that some skills transcend texting and Googling. “They’re so in tune with technology. They have to learn to come to the cla
ssroom and incorporate the technology with what they’re learning,” said Paul Guglielmo, assistant principal at South Orangetown Middle School. “It’s very important for them to learn the process that goes behind solving problems: learning the process and solving the problem instead of just Googling the answer.” Guglielmo, 50, who is starting his third year at the middle school in September, recalls when things were different. He came to the educational community late, after earning an engineering degree and spending 15 years in the construction business. He switched careers a little more than a decade ago and was a science teacher at Clarkstown South High School for eight years before moving to South Orangetown Middle School. He remembers when he was in college taking a straight edge and drawing a line on paper while creating blueprints and other plans. Kids these days, he said, use computer-assisted drawing programs to do the same work. Many don’t realize that there used to be artistry in creating plans. For many, making blueprints and plans is just another job before the computer. “They don’t have the same skills” as students of his generation, he said. “But that’s the world today. They think electronically and more digitally than we did growing up. What they need to learn is all the electronic stuff is just tools.”
ssroom and incorporate the technology with what they’re learning,” said Paul Guglielmo, assistant principal at South Orangetown Middle School. “It’s very important for them to learn the process that goes behind solving problems: learning the process and solving the problem instead of just Googling the answer.” Guglielmo, 50, who is starting his third year at the middle school in September, recalls when things were different. He came to the educational community late, after earning an engineering degree and spending 15 years in the construction business. He switched careers a little more than a decade ago and was a science teacher at Clarkstown South High School for eight years before moving to South Orangetown Middle School. He remembers when he was in college taking a straight edge and drawing a line on paper while creating blueprints and other plans. Kids these days, he said, use computer-assisted drawing programs to do the same work. Many don’t realize that there used to be artistry in creating plans. For many, making blueprints and plans is just another job before the computer. “They don’t have the same skills” as students of his generation, he said. “But that’s the world today. They think electronically and more digitally than we did growing up. What they need to learn is all the electronic stuff is just tools.”For further details visit as : http://lohud.com/article/20090817/NEWS03/908170359/-1/SPORTS
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