Wow....Months have gone by since my last post. I have been so busy completing my graduate studies that I have not had the opportunity to post at all. Plus, I have been thinking about what would make a good post. There has been something on my mind about technology and learning lately and I have not been able to bring it out; but now I think I know.
In my current teaching position I have the enviable job of being able to work at finding best-practice ideas to incorporate technology into the classroom. It is a challenge at time and often gets hung up on technology. Why?
There are always problems...classrooms with limited technology; limited support; fear of the unknown; fearing of losing control of the classroom; lack of software, etc. the list could literally go on and on.
Really, it's not about any of that in my opinion. I had the opportunity to talk to a fellow traveler in tech integration today and he brought out what I have been thinking, the focus needs to be not on the problems, but the kids. Students are the reason we are here. They are so different today than my generation, which is only really a generation removed. I look at my own children. They get technology. Really, they just get it.
Teachers sometimes do not. Technology is not about writing notes on a computer or creating a PowerPoint that has lots of glitz. It's about bringing the new world to them. Allowing them to be global citizens, making contacts through global connections; understanding cultures through interaction, not memorization.
This is where we need to move. It's not about the latest software or hardware; it's about creating global citizens able to live in a global society. The question is, where do we begin in the classroom?
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