After reading the article Defying the Default Cultures and Creating a Culture of Possibility I had many responses to the idea that technology will improve achievement. As the article pointed out “Technology is opening new doors for students and teachers alike and transforming the world outside the school, but classrooms today are still teacher-centered, low level fact information-based, and low tech delivered to students who respond to assignments with equally low tech tools”. I have never been able to explain our education of today in such a concise way. In today’s world technology can make a world of difference of how we learn in the classroom. We ironically use technology everywhere in our world outside of class. However, for some reason education is not up to date in the reform to change education as a whole. I love how Roberson points out “that we are all on an assembly line with a conveyor belt that starts at same spot that it ends”. Technology is the only thing that will help us with the outside environment of the 21st century. There will be changes in the curriculum and instructions to connect to the rest of the world like never before. Hopefully technology will develop enough the skills and behaviors students need to be successful in a globalized, digitized, fast paced, ever changing real world environment like the article of the SCANS explained. Many times through this article it explains how we need to “educate the students for the world that exists now outside the school walls”. I am a firm believe that our era is not built to work with the latest technology. We are not being taught to use the digital tools that should be at our fingertips. So how this day can teachers be doing a better job to educate the students? I think it is simply stepping up as Roberson puts it, Will schools change, evolve, and become learning environments that stimulate and excite students to what can be to what is possible?” The choice is with the next generation of educators learning how to improve student achievement through technology.
I really like how you used the article through-out your blog. It showed that you really considered what the author was trying to point out. I especially liked your point about technology being everywhere around us outside of the classroom, but rarely used in the classroom. After reading your post, it made me think of what I will have to do as a teacher someday to take the kids off the conveyor belt and better prepare them for the real world.
ReplyDeleteYou did a great job of pointing out several reasons why technology is so important for the classroom setting! As we become teachers, we can't be the type that teaches the "same class twenty years in a row." If we truly want to prepare our students for life outside of school, technology is an extremely important factor to include in education.
ReplyDeleteIsn't is crazy to think about all the possibilites that technology presents us with? Looking at my own future in the classroom I am trying to soak up as much information as possible in technology education so that I can use it to its fullest potential in my own classroom. I think that the author of this article points out some very key ideas in his research of the future of technology- even as it relates to the classroom. Your response to his article is insightful!
ReplyDeleteI really liked how you worded your blog, pointing our how necessary it is for technology to be up to date with our classrooms. You made a very good point, that everything in the society around us is run on technology, and that our classrooms should reflect just that. I loved the quote that we need to have "learning environments that stimulate and excite students to what can be to what is possible", because this is definitely true! We need to be encouraging our students to think outside the box, and to use all the available resources. Good job!
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