In reference to Hipteacher (mentioned here a couple of days ago,) Jeremy asks:
Young, independent and creative, with good taste in music and no fear of using technology, she makes you wonder how education will be transformed if we see a whole generation of teachers like her roll through the system.
Well, I guess that’s not really a question, but you get the point. What happens when student teachers suddenly have a whole host of pseudo blog mentors out there whose experiences they can read about and learn from? And with no fear…really? At the snail’s pace of education, I’ll be feet up on the beach by then. But even so, I’ll still be a part of the conversation if I so choose.
I am looking forward to the day when the teachers-in-training no longer fear technology. I work in a academic library that primarily serves graduate students, and many of them can barely use the current technology. The primary reason is that the median age is 41, but their students would be better served if they knew how to use e-mail and powerpoint.
I am looking forward to the day when the teachers-in-training no longer fear technology. I work in a academic library that primarily serves graduate students, and many of them can barely use the current technology. The primary reason is that the median age is 41, but their students would be better served if they knew how to use e-mail and powerpoint.
I’ll tell you what will happen. All the current (not you all, but you know who I’m talking about) administrators, librarians and pseudo-tech people are going to have to get their acts together. Schools talk a lot about technology but their labs aren’t capable of doing anything besides simple word processing, and many administrators totally glaze over when you try to tell them what you want to do. It’s frustrating. I know technology is expensive, and that’s part of the problem. But, another is the laziness of some people to do things without understanding what they are doing first. It’s like having a vocational graphic design program, but the kids only get to work on PCs and use Pagemaker and ridiculous stuff like that. It’d never fly in the “real world” and all that vocational stuff is worthless unless you are a secretary at a law office or something.
Sorry. I get frustrated. My graduate program, while at a small, liberal arts college, is pretty darn tech friendly. We were required to do Powerpoint presentations and Imovies and that kind of thing. So, now I know it and I want to use it, but I’m afraid I won’t be able to.
Oh, and thanks for making me sound cool.