This post is about Karl Fisch, a teacher and technology education specialist at Arapahoe High School in Littleton, Colorado. He won an award form EduBlog Awards for his blog post "Is It Okay To Be A Technologically Illiterate Teacher ?" It was nominated as "The Most Influential Post of 2007". Fisch did not expect to win anything, he did not even expect to be nominated. He was just responding to a post written by someone else named Terry Freedman. Freedman wrote a post about 'is it acceptable for a teacher to be technology illiterate?'
Freedman also had proposed a set of standards for teacher which teachers need to follow. I liked reading the post it was very interesting. I also believe that teachers need to keep up with technology. Like he said "If a teacher today is not technologically literate - and is unwilling to make the effort to learn more - it's equivalent to a teacher 30 years ago who didn't know how to read and write." Teachers must know whats going on with technology just so they can relate to their students. I would think today that every 8 out of ten students today know about Myspace and Facebook and other cites like it. Teachers now can even use technology to communicate with their students outside of class.
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Yes it is frightening how much students seem to know about matters through using ICT. I used to be able to bluff my way through things when I first started teaching, but now with much more technologically savy kids its harder. Its so much better generally though because we don't just have to rely on books for material, we are able to go live to places and also update things/events/actions as they happen. Will bring some students through this page later this afternoon, they will enjoy the fact you own a snake!
ReplyDeleteMr Webb, Room 8, Melville Intermediate School, Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand.
Not only did your post attract attention from Mr. C and Mr. Webb, but so did your presentation!
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