Monday, December 04, 2006
What if we took ALL technology out of your rooms?
Hmmm...what would education be like without computers? Without email? Without spreadsheets, word processors, without the web, without digital cameras, scanners, calculators, etc, etc. What have we gained with technology in the education realm? How has it helped us? How has it hurt us? Lets hear what you have to say.
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We would write our lessons on a shovel head with coal. We would chop wood for the school's stove in the winter, if we went to school at all. Well worn primers and borrowed books would be our literature. We would eventually learn life's lessons, get elected sixteenth President of the United States, and save the Union.
If all technology was taken out of the classroom; we would be Amish!
Good teachers can teach with a piece of chalk and a board....or even less. Look at Aristotle and the other Greeks and all that they accomoplished. All tech. has done is isolate us more...we email instead of talking to each other face to face....and has added hours of work and expectations to my life. Cell phones a nd voice mail, for example...used to be I could choose to ignore a call and have some "me" time. Now, if I don;t answer, it is where were you? I left you messages and tried you at work, home, your cell, your car...etc.! Can't even get away on vacation anymore and relax. World has to much comunication now!
If it weren't for technology we couldn't post things anonomously...
...and our time would be put to better use cutting thousands of shingles with an adz for our crude domiciles here in the Western Reserve.
I got chills as I tried to imagine a classroom without technology. Our problem with learning new technology is we have forgotten how life was without the influence of technology. Just think, using the graph on the Easy Grade Pro a teacher can chart the class's mastery on an assessment and of course, can quickly tell a student's mean. Let's not forget the technologies that we use with ease, such as the overhead projector, the television, and the VCR. As educators we say we are teaching students to become lifelong learners; and, it is now required of educators to also continue learning as we use the new technologies in our teaching.
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