Alda Hanna

Alda Hanna, teacher at Steele Elementary School in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, talks about the necessity of preparing her students for a technological world, and how the Internet helps her to reach this goal. Excerpted from Learning With Technology: Merging Onto the Information Highway, produced by NCREL in 1994. (Audio comment, 298K)

"This world is so technical that we have got to let this education match this technology in the world. The only way to do that is to get our kids connected to a computer type program that is networking the world. The best way to do that is the internet. These children have to know that by the 21st century, they have not been let down in their education. When I think of how I used to teach before computers, I get goose pimples. I know that I was not serving these kids the way that they should be served. I know that this is the way to go, computers, networking, the internet, this is the only way."

This Critical Issue summary was researched and written by Gilbert Valdez, director of outreach and technology at North Central Regional Educational Laboratory and director of the Midwest Consortium for Mathematics and Science Education.

Date posted: 1995