Technologically Illiterate

A Vision of Students Today by Michael Wesch

http://is.gd/2c0V0

This video shows a typical college classroom full of many students. Each of the students holds up a fact about their life. Like how much time they spend on facebook, watching TV, listening to music, or on their cell phones. Also, it shows facts about their classrooms. For example, that their are 115 students in it and only 18% of one girl's teachers know her name. Additionally, that they spend their time on facebook during class.

College classes should incorporate technology to keep students' interest. Everything that students do now revolves around technology, so when they go into the classroom and are expected to just copy down notes and read a textbook they get bored. If professors incorporate technology more, then more students would be more involved in their class. Also, college classes are so big that there is no one on one attention. Which students need that feedback to know how they are doing.

"It's Not About the Technology" by Kelly Hines

http://www.eduratireview.com/2009/04/its-not-about-technology.html

This blog discusses how the future of teaching does not have to include technology. That it is about teachers being learners and it depends on good teachers. It says that it is better to have a teacher that can teach well and is trained well, then it is to have a teacher that cannot use the technology properly trying to teach with it. Also, it states that teachers need to have a good training program and stay up to date on current trends, research, and tools.

I agree with some parts of this blog, however other parts I do not agree with. I believe that teachers do need better training programs. Also, that teachers need to be learners and stay up to date on current trends, research, and tools. Teachers always need to be a step ahead and learning right along with their students to be the best they can be. I do not agree that technology is useless in the classroom though. Yes I do think it is pointless to use technology if the teacher does not know how to make the best of it. However, that is why we need training programs for teachers to learn how to use technology properly. There is no reason that teachers cannot stay up to date with technology. Children today are using all kinds of technology at very young ages and that is how they will learn best. Technology will help keep their attention and give them a lot more opportunities in the classroom. Students have to be able to use technology when they get out of school, so they should learn to use it well while they are in school to keep them from being behind or completely lost when they are finished. Technology is the future and it needs to be incorporated in the classrooms.


Is It Okay to Be a Technologically Illiterate Teacher? by Karl Fisch

http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2007/09/is-it-okay-to-be-technologically.html

This blog talks about technologically illiterate teachers and whether or not it is okay to be one. So many people today are technologically illiterate and proud of it. Being technologically illiterate today is the same as not being able to read or write thirty years ago. There are teachers that refuse to learn technology and think that they do not need it to be great teachers. Karl Fisch goes back and forth on whether teachers need to be technologically literate or if they already have enough going on that they do not need to learn these skills right away.

I believe that all teachers need to be completely technologically literate. I think that all of the education programs in universities need to start offering more educational media classes and making sure their students are technologically literate when they graduate. As for the teachers already in the field, I believe that they should be attending technology training programs so that they can learn how to use it properly. Once all teachers know how to use technology properly it can be used in every classroom to open up tons of opportunities for their students.


Social Media Count by Gary Hayes

http://www.personalizemedia.com/garys-social-media-count/

This shows what is going on in the world in the last few seconds, day, week, month, year in the world of technology. All of the social media counts just keep rising and rising. The numbers are astounding to think about. By the time the children in school now get done with school those numbers will be huge. This means that technology will be so much more incorporated in the world then it is today. This also means that the people in school now for teaching really need to learn how to incorporate technology into the classroom. The world is changing and advancing every second and the future teachers need to advance with it. There will be no excuse before long because technology is going to be everywhere.