To make a very very long story short I have been without internet from Tuesday until this morning. Isn't technology grand sometimes? To make up for almost a week without the net I will be posting both of my blogs for the week today.
Looking back at the lesson plan I am working on for our last assignment it has made me realize how much teaching has changed in the last 10 years. I am too young to remember what it is like to teach without a projector, computers, power points, etc. Frankly I would have a very difficult time teaching without all of these things! Looking at it like this I can see how and maybe why older teachers in my district and in other districts across the state I'm sure, are resistant to the change of technology. I grew up with it, went to college with it, and now use it everyday of my life.
Eventually I imagine there will come a time where what I do is considered old fashioned and obsolete and the young teachers will look at me and say "wow what a dinosaur" but what can we do in our districts to keep people on the same page?
I think no matter what is done, from useful in service days, to one on one lunch training with the "tech guy" there will be teachers who are resistant to change, but who are we to say that technology has made things better? Maybe the teachers who came before us had it right in the first place?
Just a thought.
I know exactly what you mean! When I first started teaching, there wasn't any technology in my room. I figured, okay, teachers have been teaching without all the gizmos and gadgets since the beginning of time practically, so I can make it work. Thankfully a smartboard was moved in the week before school started, but I was ready to work without it! How long it is going to take before we are the dinosaurs? I guess our best bet is to keep learning!
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