Technology in Education

After watching the videos and reading the articles, I can see that I am definitely a digital immigrant.  However, I immigrated at a young age, thanks to the forward vision of my father who saw technology as an exciting new horizon and as a family we migrated when the digital landscape was still relatively unexplored.  As a result, my accent is not as thick as many of the other immigrants my same age and I am sometimes able to switch back as forth between the language of the natives and my native pre-digital language fairly easily.  I do find that I am still more comfortable in the paper-pencil world, but enjoy making attempts to immerse myself in the digital world.

it also became apparent that I do often view my students from a very ethnocentric viewpoint.  When I get stressed, I often revert back to teaching the way that I am most comfortable and I alienate my students as a result.  With the technology that is available, there really is no reason that school needs to be boring and irrelevant to students, but as educators, we have a tendency to continue to force students into a mold that make US comfortable, and for no better reason than the fact that it makes us more comfortable. 

The resources that are available to us as educators are plentiful even though finances aren’t.  The drill and kill environment that has been forced upon us in the name of educational reform, is taking us back to the dark ages of education when we are standing at the brink of an educational renaissance if we will embrace the resources that are before us. 

We must find a way to get students and teachers on the same page, speaking the same language.