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February
February
I have been thinking a lot about what holds back schools from embracing the technology that is available to them. Of course there are always an every blossoming “wish list” but the truth is, we have a lot of technology available to us as teachers that isn’t being used or isn’t being used to it’s full advantage.
Take document cameras for instance: They seem to be the new hot “flavor of the month”. Who out there is using them for anything more than what they used overhead projectors for? The keyword in document camera is CAMERA, people. How many teachers out there take a picture of a document they are projecting so they can show it again later without the actual document? Even more, who is using it to record little mini-movies of a process so that a student who was absent that day can view how did the teacher demonstrate long division?
My personal perception of the hold up is that for whatever reason, teachers aren’t able to give up an old way of doing things for something new. The few that are really trying and putting their own time and effort into learning the tools of technology many times still see it as an “add on” and who has time for any add-ons? Somehow they must begin to see the fruits of technology as an “in-place of” and only then will they really embrace the benefits of technology.
That’s just my two cents.
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