Students' Technology Views Solicited
A rare federal effort to ask students how they think schools should use technology is eliciting responses that are bound to make some educators clap and others cringe.
"Every teacher should have a cellphone that is kept on till 10 p.m.," so students can call, said Ryan Martinez, 16, a junior at YES College Preparatory School, a charter school in Houston. He was echoing a recommendation he made during a special forum on educational technology held earlier this year.
His suggestion may sound a bit extreme. But in fact, it is what his 600- student school already requires of its teachers. They are issued cellphones so students can call them in the evenings and on weekends, with off-limits hours agreed upon by each class and its teacher. The policy has been in...
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