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TechLearning has a good article today on computer lab practices.

Educator Larry Ferlazzo reflects on teaching in a computer lab, describing his own learning experiences and sharing with us some recommendations from those experiences.

This is the short list of five recommendations:

• Use computer more to reinforce key concepts, and less to teach them
• Students can be producers of content and not just consumers
• Computers can be used to help student develop and deepen relationships with each other, not just with the computer screen
• Use time in the computer lab to help develop leadership among students, and not just have them be your followers.
• Spend less time being the controller and more time helping students develop self control

In reality, these are best-practice recommendations for both the classroom and the computer lab. Ferlazzo describes each in more depth in his TechLearning article.

Ferlazzo’s blog and website are also a great source for ESL, ELL, and EFL resources.

Image citation: Old Shoe Woman, “Student in Computer Lab II.” Old Shoe Woman’s Photostream. 30 Sep 2005. 1 Feb 2008 <http://flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/48011845/>.

Tags: computer lab, instruction

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