"I just don't like technology." How many times have we heard that from our colleagues? Not to step on any toes, and I am no spring chicken myself, but generally this is the kind of grumbling heard from our more "experienced" colleagues who did not grow up with with computers as a part of their everyday lives. "Young" teachers don't remember a time when they didn't have computers in their homes or schools. A school day for them without a computer would be the equivalent of an "experienced" teacher surviving the same school day without a chair. Technology has become just that fundamental to peoples' everyday lives.
Lisa Thumann makes the comment in her blog that we all expect our doctor's be to up-to-date on the latest trends, techniques, and practices for their practices. Shouldn't we expect the same for teachers, especially when we are the teachers?
Ms. Thumann quotes a student from a video entitled No Future in Left Behind by Marianne Malstrom and Peggy Sheehy. The student says, "I can't create my future with the tools of your past". Doesn't that just say it all?? Anybody want to move into a house with last century's latest innovations? Anybody want a doctor prescribing treatment that was breakthrough technology in 1950?
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YES!! It's so true that we have to change the way we teach or we're going to bore our kids right out of school. We digital immigrants need to learn from those digital natives also known as students.
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