Education PLN (9-27-07)

Is It Okay To Be A Technologically Illiterate Teacher?
In this article posted on The Fischbowl by Mr. Fisch he talks about if it is okay to be a technologically illiterate teacher. He says no it isn't okay because you have to know the material you are teaching to your students and how can you teach it to them if you don't understand it yourself. He pulls into another man's blog about being technologically illiterate and connects to what he is saying to. Also he says that if your not a technologically literate teacher that maybe you should re think your career.

I agree with Mr. Fish on this one because how can teachers be teaching us something if they don't know what they are talking about. Who is to say they are teaching it wrong then? In this case teacher DO need to be technologically literate because they need to be teaching us correctly for the sake of our futures. I also agree with Mr. Fisch on how he is saying that if your not a technologically literate teacher that you should maybe find a better job suiting your knowledge in technology. Technology is our present and our not so distant future. People need to know how to understand computers because that's how things are going to be in the future. They don't have to exactly like computers or how they function, but they need to be able to when it comes down to it understand how to work it and understand why we use it. To be able to make a fortune and be successful in modern day society people have to understand most, if not all forms of technology. I was reading an article the other day in the Denver Post about how today's adults are shaping how technology is coming across in 2007. So if the "baby boomer's" are shaping our technology I only think it would be appropriate for them to understand those technological advances. So bringing back to the beginning question "is it okay to be a technologically illiterate teacher?". I think no all teachers need to understand all the technology that is being used throughout or school and the technology that is being taught to us.