In this article, one line really stood out to me: “I am 34 years old and don't think twice about cordless phones or wireless remotes on televisions, but I bet they were a big deal when they first came out.” Obviously I am not 34, but I am 21. I’m not that far behind a 34 year old technologically. I was born into a technological age; my family had a computer as soon as they first came out, I’ve never gone a day without a television in my house where I don’t have to get up to change the channel, and cell phones have been second nature to me for the last fifteen years. However, not everyone was born into the technological age that I was.
I had a multitude of teachers growing up that were around fifty or above in age. They were not born into a technologically advanced age that I was born into. I still hear from my mom about how she only had five channels growing up and she had to get up to change the channel. Of course I just roll my eyes and brush it off, but it does play a big part in the use of technology in not only the classroom, but every day life. My mom is an accountant and when her boss decided it was time to take taxes to the computer instead of doing it by hand, my mom boycotted; she wanted nothing to do with technology because she had been doing the taxes by hand for 25 years, so why change now? This is very similar to integrating technology into the classroom.
Similarly to my pervious post, educators who have a routine and are set in their ways without technology don’t want to be told that they need to bring technology into their classrooms after going 10, 15, 20 years without it. They need to be shown a pretty good argument as to why they should integrate it, and this article does a very good job of breaking down the reasons in a classroom friendly way.
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