Monday, January 30, 2012
Thing 5: The and Improved School....Maybe
As technology continues to expand and evolve a new endangered species is
beginning to become apparent, the teacher. Sad and astounding at the same time,
School 2.0 as coined by some embodies the new phase of education. What possibly
can the internet do that a teacher cannot? The answer is a lot. A teacher
cannot produce multimedia aids that only the internet can provide. Nor can a
teacher be multiple places at one time that the internet can be thanks to the availability
of computers. It is not the end of person to person education as a whole; it
just means that the schools of the future will turn their gaze from textbooks
to the ever expanding realm of internet knowledge. For in the end it is people
who must decide what information is to remain or be removed from the internet to
insure that only the facts and not baseless opinions pollute the minds of our
impressionable youth.
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You bring up a good point here. It does sound like the teacher is vanishing from the school. I struggle to decide whether technology is beneficial or harmful. A little technology is good, but too much spells disaster. My history teacher, who is blind, relies on a technology as little as possible because he said that when something happens to the computers the teachers can't teach. Their whole lesson was dependent on that technology. I suppose what is needed is a healthy balance.
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