Thursday, July 5, 2007
Article 1--How Teachers View Technology
After reading this article, I gained a little insight about some of the things teachers expect from their technology. I especially noted the difference between teachers with less than 10 years expericence and those with more. Of course those teachers view technology differently--it had a different role in their upbringing. In another ten years, new teachers will be doing innovative stuff with computers that totally astounds me. I hope that by taking courses and staying up to date on technology, I can keep technology an important part of my teaching style. Technology is also important to use because even the most tech-savvy teacher doesn't know everything that their students do about emerging technology. Probably the key thing about technology is that it bridges that gap between generations which so often separates teacher and student.
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I think you raised a great point. Even as a new teacher, I am fearful that in 5 or 10 years I will know less about technology than my students and the newer teachers. I really feel that we need to have inservices/classes (such as this one) available to keep us up to speed with the new technology material. There are so many other things to worry about within our curriculum and sometimes technology takes a backseat to those things.
I haven't been around that long, and I am feeling pretty out of touch with the technology bit. I think that as times change, so does the relevance of schools and what we teach, or at leat try to teach. We don't have black boards all over the room with the alphabet and ten word sentences like they did in the 1800's. But, who knows, history does repeat itself....look at the bellbottom fad.
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