Reading Reflection on Preface and Chapter 1 in Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology

Chapter 1: How Education is Changing?


This reading impacted my thinking about technology in teaching and learning a great deal.  I never thought of how you could consider this day in age the time of the second educational revolution, but it sure does makes sense! It is mind boggling to see just how tech savvy our world has become in the last few decades. From everything to laptops, ipods and even iphones we see that our world relies on technology in almost every way.  We would be lost without it (I know I would). Now let's shift to the schoolroom.  They are slowly, but surely becoming much more technologic with Smart-Boards, Podcasts, and many other forms of technology.  Is it enough though? No.  Some classrooms still do their daily routine based on the old-fashion way of traditional teaching.  No one is going to know technology better than our future! So it our job as teachers to keep up with this always changing technologic world!  The problem with this new Revolution (as we call it) is that many teachers or even just normal, average Joes are not comfortable with change.  We don't want our students to become bored in class.  We want to challenge their minds and educate them in as many ways as possible, and what better way to explore the world than through the technologic world?  In this chapter it talked a lot about how students are looking outside of the classroom for different resources and tools for learning because schools are not providing those elements.  The chapter even shared a handful of stories that challenge our traditional model of education as learning in classrooms.  It is our duty as teachers to successfully integrate new technologies into our classrooms or else we will become a world where the students with the means and ability will seek their learning outside of the school. After reading this and even learning what I have so far in Education 381, I have made a promise to myself to be as technologic savvy as I can.  It will be so important in my future classroom, and most important for the lives of my students someday.  Incorporating different areas and aspects of technology will certainly be one of my top priorities and goals. I want to learn when technology is important in the classroom and when sometimes it may not be.  I have so much to learn throughout the remainder of this course, but I am looking forward to all the information I will have to cram in my head.