Blog Post 3

A Vision of Students Today

I am the kind of person who does not know a lot about technology, nor did I really care to know, but after watching the videos required for this class I have come to realize how much I unintentionally use technology. It is very true that sometimes I go to class and I just get on facebook on my phone because, whatever the teacher is talking about is whole lot less interesting than the cyber world. I also spend many hours more online than I do studying or doing homework.

Another way that I can relate to this video is in the aspect of books. Every single year that a new semester begins, it never fails, I will buy a book that I pay over one hundred dollars for and the teacher will never require us to use it even one time. Also, by the time the semester is over, you go to try and return the book that you never used and it is out of date and now considered an old edition. In regardes to the web, it will never become an old edition and will never cost you money. The web is updated regularly. In conclusion, I could say that it did capture my college experiance.

It's Not About the Technology

I thoroughly enjoyed myself as I read Ms. Hines' post. It really reminds you, if you are an education major, what you signed up for in the first place, and that is first and foremost to teach. Not only as Ms. Hines said do we teach, but we are also here to learn. Without a passion to teach, and make sure your students grasp what your teaching, you are not going to succeed in education.

My absolute favorite part of this post was when Ms. Hines said, "I equate teaching and learning to a basic physics principle. If an abject does not move,no matter how much effort has been applied, no work has been done. Therefore, if a student has not learned, no matter how much effort has been exerted, no teaching has been done." This quote is one that will stick with me the rest of my teaching career. This blog really gave me incite on teaching and what it is really about. First, a teacher teaches. Second, a teacher adds technology when appropriate.

Is It Okay To Be A Technologically Illiterate Teacher

I really enjoyed this post as well. I think even in his frustration he got the point across. I think that anyone who says that technology is not important and that you do not need it in schools should definitely read this blog. I definitely do not think that technology is all there is to an education at all. First you are a teacher, then you can bring in the technology to enhance the learning experience.

School in this day and time is not a place in my opinion, like I've said before, to hide from technology. Even if you aren't using technology inside the classroom you will still need it for keeping in contact with your co-workers and for keeping a record of the grades. There is no way that a completely technological illiterate person could servive in a school system today.

Garys Social Media Count

First, I would like to say that if it takes having one of all of these things listed on the count to be technologiacally literate, then I am not! I did not even know what some of the things were on there. The thing that was even more strange to me was the fact that even though I didn't know what some of the things were on there, they were growing so fast. This makes me think that I should step it up a notch in the cyber world. This was very eye opening for me.