Fingal, D. (2009-2010). Envisioning the future: dave moursund speaks about what's ahead for educational technology. Learning and leading with Technology online journal, 37(4),
This article really hammers the nail in my philosophy of computing being incorporated in the classroom environment. The article states that learning curve in computing is increasing and that administrators, teachers, stakeholders, are holding the idea off. The article also states that by the time one kindergarten generation graduates from college computers would have rapidly changed the job market. Which is true for every generation, the world is changing and current administrators are not moving fast enough. We need to incorporate technology in the classroom now in order to save jobs, paper, and many other resources that could be used with technology in the classroom. I also see the gap between teachers and technology when many of the teachers today can not meet the ISTE standards to a sixth grade level. Although many students they are teaching use technology on a daily basis and are way advanced then many of their teachers.
As educators what do we do?
According to the author we should use many lessons that involve collaborative group work online. We should teach our students to be good digital citizens online. We should also have more teacher trainings on using technology in the classroom. I do not know how many teachers do not even know how to email each other let alone run a chat discussion.
Can districts test teachers for proficiency?
It is possible that teachers will have to some day show proficiency in many parts of technology in order to have a teaching job. I know that this would really help many districts that have teachers that do not want to change and use technology in the classroom. We must get used to using technology in the classroom because I believe if are education system is going to survive as a world leader we must embrace technology in the classroom.
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