Article Questions

    Net Generation 1- After reading this article I thought it would be important for principals and administration to encourage technology classes to teachers over summer break. Support teachers so much so, that maybe the school could even pay for the class if there is a fee. There is all this talk about the important role that technology plays in education, which is true, but we cannot agree that just because people are born into a tech savy world that they are also familiar with technology. This article even shows that more often than not undergraduates use apps for personal use and not educational, and maybe that is because they do not know how to integrate into an education form for the apps they use. 

    Teaching and Technology- This article began with talking about how the United States standards are falling and because of institutions such as schools. They state that the U.S. needs to change the 'problems of education' and things will start to rise, but teachers are paid so poorly. My senior year of high school (2018) we had a teacher walk-out in Oklahoma because of pay. This article states the importance of great schools, which is true, but yet teachers get paid, as if, we are not shaping the minds of future leaders. Education is so important, yet we are undervalued, and our pay shows it. 

    This article also states that schools need to add more computers into the classroom, yet in Guymon we can hardly keep translators because they are paid so poorly, no one really wants to translate as their full-time job. If there is an increase of online work and online classrooms there needs to be a reduction of online homework, because despite the U.S. being so advance in technology not 100% of the U.S. has access to internet or a computer at home. This shows the advantages that upper and middle-class can have on lower-class families because technology is important in education, but not everyone has equal access. This made me think of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, putting the pressure of having computer/internet access on a student who fears going home or wonders where their next meal will come from, just limits them even more in the classroom.

    TPACK1- This article, I thought, was very interesting. I love how they acknowledged that teachers can have the curriculum knowledge, knowledge of technology, and content knowledge, but they may not know how to combine the three. Which is so true. We can have all the tools, but not know how to use them.