Now that technology has become more and more a part of our everyday goings-on in the classroom, I wonder what purpose it truly serves. There are times when I'm overwhelmed and stressed out and find a website that works with what I'm teaching and I just think "Yea, we can just do this for today." How good of a decision is that really? Is that the easy way out and not at all what technology was intended to be used in the classroom for?
I know that deep down it should be a way to revoluntionize and enhance current teaching- not replace it. It should make us better teachers- not lazier ones.
Does every teacher face this dilemma from time to time?
At the same time, I know I'm going to seriously be downscaling in the technology department at my new school district. With all of these resources at my hands currently I want to take as much of it with me. Does that mean I print out as many sites as I can find and make overheads of them? Just the thought of working with an overhead with those dreaded markers again with sheets flying everywhere- I'm dreading it. Maybe things will up-scale before I get there in August. I doubt it... It's been such a struggle this year to accomodate my teaching life to having more techonology it will be hard to reverse the process again.
But good teachers don't care what they have to teach with, right?
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