'But I don't want to teach my students how to use technology'
A person responding to one of my recent articles in Web 2.0 told me that, "Come on!, I don’t want to teach my students how to use the technology but just do pure teaching." He missed the point: Adapting to information technology does not necessarily mean using technology at all, but it does require an understanding of how education has been irreversibly altered.
Reminds me of an academic colleague who said to me "I don't see the need for your work, Scott (i.e., technology leadership) because when I need help setting up the projector in class, all of the students in our Master's (principal licensure) program can help me."
3 comments
Oct 22, 2009
Russ Goerend said...
Adults say the darndest things.
Oct 22, 2009
normannkalmus said...
That's it! Lots of people miss the point. "Pure teaching" means exactly what? A teacher with a desk between him and students? Here, there n everywhere the speech is the same. Resistance to change impedes comprehension of business.
Oct 23, 2009
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