Ok, so here I am again back to my same old self. I have stated before the Time is NOW. -http://bobsprankle.com/bitbybit_wordpress/?p=349/ In this blog he states along the same lines that I do, We Must embrace the technology at hand and start using it in our classroom.
If we look at the blog on the new digital divide.- http://betch.edublogs.org/2008/07/31/the-new-digital-divide/, we see that those views are also about not where we are but where we need to go and how do we take our students there with us. I worked in Resturant/ Retail Management for many years before I decided to become a teacher. Every year we would get new technology to make ours jobs easier and make sure our inventory was where it needed to be to make sure what we brought in was going out through sales and not through theft. Well now I am a teacher and I can definently say that techonolgy in the schools does not even attempt to keep up with the real world. When I first started teaching the computers I was using still had Windows 98 on them, well the rest of the world was already using Windows 2000 and then XP. Well now technology is Windows Vista, but we are still on XP. Times do change and the cost do effect everything we do, but Are we hindering our students by not keeping up with the times so that they will know how to use the technology that is out there.
If our children are our future then we as parents and educators need to support and want for our kids to be able to learn on the latest and greatest technoloy there is. Our government needs to provide the financial resource so the antique-dinosaurs, we call computers, can be replaced as often as the technology of the future happens. We keep saying we want our student to perform to the standards of the world and we are relying on them to be able to go from school to the workforce and be the most creative productive people in the world, but I don't think we do the students justice if we can't give them all that technology has to offer to them.
As is written in this blog Imagine turning on a facuet..... -http://www.missbakersbiologyclass.com/blog/2007/10/07/imagine-turning-the-faucetand-nothing-coming-out
What if this happens in technology?
Can our students really be prepared if we don't give them the tools?
How can we expect what we can't provide?
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You have really echoed the frustrations that I have experienced since I took over this position nearly eight years ago! We really need to concentrate on ensuring the basic technology foundations are in place, which has been taking a back seat to other initiatives and not given nearly enough funding in construction budgets. We're really doing our students a great disservice by not ensuring they have access to current (not cutting edge) technologies, especially if they don't have it at home.
ReplyDeleteHear ya. I would love to have cutting edge technology for all of my work, but that is not realistic. If I personally tried to keep I would go broke. So I can only imagine how a school system would have to spend. I do know that we need to get closer to current. We still use Office 2003.
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