Slippy Slope
If the private sector is finding it difficult to keep up with the ever changing world of technology, how is education, with it’s limited resources, going to provide students with a cutting edge learning environment? From there, I began to question how teachers, who are immigrants in this era of technology, are going to be able to take these technologies and bring them into their classrooms for their students? How are educators, with limited knowledge of the capabilities of these technologies, and limited time, going to buy into their uses, knowing very well, the energies they expend on learning these new tools, will only lead to a continuous struggle to stay on top of the ever changing world of technology? Furthermore, from a management end, how can administrators within a district, looking to optimize their instructional staff, avoid waisting their financial and human resources learning technologies that are quickly becoming antiquated?
Various pictorials of the slippery slope. Read Patrick Aroune’s prickly expostion of the problem of the accelerating tech treadmill. And just so you don’t think all treadmills are bad watch this OK Go video.
tellio :: Dec.16.2006 :: Good Reading, Uncategorized, Useful Tools and Processes :: No Comments »