Assignment 7

Karl Fisch is on the right path for us to have successful children in the future. In his post"Is It Okay To Be A Technologically Illiterate Teacher", he brings up a good point that there are a lot of Educators out there that do not keep up with the technology that's driving our world. Some teachers do not feel they need to be computer savvy and find it funny that they are so illiterate in this area. I personally have heard teachers laugh at the fact that their students know more about the Internet and computers than they do. As Karl Fisch asks, should teachers be held accountable for this type of ignorance? Of course they should.

In the 21st century, it is necessary to be competent in your computer and Internet skills to prepare students to enter the real world. Over the last 20 years, it is evident and obvious that our dependents on technology is only growing at an exponential rate. In order to give our future generation of adults a fair and even chance in society, we have to educate them using technology. We are cheating our kids if we do not do this.

So many teachers, especially teachers that have been teaching for over 10 years, have their daily class routine and see no reason to change it or to continue their own education. As an educator, if you don't keep up with the changes in society and adjust your teaching skills to fit that change, you are not doing your job; you are not teaching children for transfer. You are not preparing these children for the future ahead of them; I say future, it isn't really even the future, it is now because technology is here in a big way already. As a parent myself, I can tell you, I want my children to have a running start when they leave High School and if their teachers are not giving this to them, I want them to be held accountable for that.