So What's the Point?

As we have been researching\needing to find things to post on Diigo or twitter, I have actually been quite surprised at how many things are out there for us students, and one day teachers, to use.

Admittedly that I had no idea such an invention like Diigo or Google Pages existed until recently, but that's beside the point.

 Here's the point:

I feel like technology and its uses are advancing so much (including the fact that it's always at our finger tips) that even our expectations for students and certain professions are going to change. Like for example...why focus so much of schooling time on memorization (of certain things) when you could focus on something more in-depth,dynamic, and interesting since students could ...in reality... always have the answers to things with them on their phones etc...Get what I'm saying? So maybe instead of having all the students in an AP Politics class, spend days memorizing all the presidents and their office term dates, the teacher could skip that...assuming that if ever they needed to know the specific dates they could take 5 seconds and google it (or even ask Suri)... and instead have them concentrate on the tactics, details, and long term positives\negatives from certain presidential terms and how they could impact our political choices now. Make sense? Pretty much I think a positive of all this technology stuff is that people are honestly able to retain more knowledge, be smarter, and hopefully do more productive things with their time...of course if one has the self-control to avoid surfing the internet....

Say what?!

It makes sense that technology is booming (or should be) in the classroom...but what happens when the students know more about it than the teachers? 

    

  Honestly, this question was a common one to run through my mind as I did my field work last semester. I worked with second graders (pretty much like high functioning toddlers) and in more then a few situations, I saw them having more knowledge about smart boards, cellphones, Ipads, and computers than most teachers. Clearly, since these children are growing up in a technological age it's all second nature to them...so what does that mean for us, those who lived in the "VHS movies, only have a land line" age? It means we need to work twice as fast and hard to not only keep up with them, but also to be able to teach them. How so? Classes like Education Technology in which I am currently enrolled. 

I know I need to be in this class, well, because frankly, it shouldn't be this tough for me! Here's to a technologically advancing Lindy-Joy!