Charles Terrett

Charles Terrett, superintendent of Fulton County Schools in Hickman, Kentucky, talks about the capacity of technology to address learning goals by promoting new skills and enabling students to solve real-world problems. Excerpted from the video series Learning With Technology, program #1, Merging Onto the Information Highway (North Central Regional Educational Laboratory, 1994).

"In today's technical environment, there are also new and additional basic skills that students should learn. These new skills include accessing information, manipulating that information and finally applying that information to solve problems. We want our students not only to solve problems, but we want our students to learn how to solve real world problems, these are our new learning goals."

This Critical Issue was adapted from a manuscript written by Margaret Honey, director of the Center for Children and Technology, Katherine McMillan Culp, assistant director for research at the Center for Children and Technology, and Robert Spielvogel, senior scientist at the Center for Children and Technology. The Center for Children and Technology is a division of the Educational Development Corporation.

Development and production of this Critical Issue were supported in part by the North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium.

Date posted: 1999