My Tech Vision of Today

I found it interesting that this tech class and I are both on the same page; in terms of advocating change in education, especially because I have "A Vision of Students Today" as a link on my Facebook. As Jackie pointed out the percentages of how many teachers who aren't using technology, it did not surprise me as much as it made me realize that we need to change and reform the way things are ran in the classroom. Technology is changing constantly, as I had mentioned in the previous entry, and the majority of the educators are not using this technology wisely. Many of which, can help our children learn better than conventional ways of lecturing and taking notes.

In last week's entry, I spoke about the dire need to bring back creativity in our schools and technology is one way to do it. It does not even have to be expensive. There are open source softwares that we can tap into and utilize. It's 100% FREE! Through open source softwares for web designing or geometer's sketchpad we can pull the creative side of kids that we've never seen before. I spoke about subjects of Math and Science last week. These are the subjects that always and definitely have answers to any question. But with the Arts, English, and Music - there isn't a definitive answer - which what's so great about these subject areas. It allows people, in general, a form of freedom to express. And imagination can never produce the same outcome from two different people with different minds. We can see a whole array of works of art!

So as educators, we need to always be on the research road to find different resources to add to our lesson plans. And always pose the questions: How can I add technology into this lesson? How can my students use this technology to explore on their own and find something/or create something uniquely spectacular?

These are the questions that I ask myself everyday... I will continue to ask questions for rest of my life. Will you?