Blog Post 3

A Vision of Students Today
This video focuses on the concerns students have today. It shows the every day life of a student. How some students pay for college, but never go to class and are wasting their money. How some students that sit in class are not paying attention and are wasting their money as well. How the every day student today is not making the most out of their time in college. This will lead to them being their a lot longer than they imagined.
Also the video goes to show that a student does various things that add up to about 26 hours of work a day. There is only 24 hours in a day. There are so many more technological things today that we are given that was not given in the past. And we need to know how ti use them to better help ourselves in the world today.
Its Not About the Technology
Mrs. Hines post is one that states that it is not about the technology. Everyone says that we need to be technologically advanced for the future. But Mrs. Hines states that this is true in some ways, but it is not everything. She goes on to give a list of four things that a teacher must recognize to impact the students in today's generation of learning.
The first is teachers must be learners. Every teacher has had a different experience and should listen to other teachers to learn theirs. This will better help the teacher be better invested in their profession. The next is teaching and learning are not the same thing. Mrs. Hines say that teaching today is about working smarter not harder. Next is that technology is wasted without good teaching. She says that a teacher must be innovative or money is wasted. Last is be a 21st Century teacher without the technology. A teacher must prepare the students to be creative and innovative, and the students will be prepared for the future.
Is It Okay To Be A Technologically Illiterate Teacher?
Karl Fisch in this post says that it is not okay to be technologically illiterate for a teacher. That a teacher that is technologically illiterate is jeopardizing our students today. The technology of today is a wonderful thing and teachers should know how to use it to prepare the students for the future. No, teachers do not have to know everything, but a basic technological brain is necessary.
The teachers of today need to be willing to learn these new technologies. The world is becoming more technological as we speak and sooner or later that will be all there is, computers. Mr. Fisch says that a technological illiterate teacher today is equivalent to a teacher 30 years ago that could not read and write. This is true, because everything today is going away from the traditional pen and paper.
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These changes are astounding. As a future teacher this means that I have to be technologically literate in order to stay up to date with my students. This will better help me understand them and get to know them. The world is changing and pretty soon everything will be done electronically. And as a future teacher i need to know how to do these things.