Blog Post # 3

I believe this video represents an accurate depiction of students in universities in this day and age. There are a lot of classroom sizes that are just huge. Some people fall asleep, some people pay attention, and now with technology, others are surfing the web while in class. I'm guilty of answering to a few responses over the internet while I should have been paying attention in class. But at the time, the questions I was answering or asking via email or facebook, seemed more pressing than whatever the teacher was talking about at that exact moment in time. A lot of questions that people have are not answered in the front of a classroom with someone lecturing to a power point and referencing a textbook that everyone had to buy but nobody uses.

I do believe knowledge is power. For it is written that, "...a man of knowledge increases strength." But what do people define as strength nowadays? I think a lot of people have knowledge about a lot of things, but they don't know what to do with it. Teachers pass on a lot of knowledge and facts and opinions and then test us on it. In turn, what do we do with what we just got tested on? Most of us just brain dump it.

Incorporating knowledge into everyday life is a foreign concept to most of us. Everything in our lives is compartmentalized into our school brain, work brain, faith brain, relationship brain, etc. Most of what people classify as knowledge as in textbook facts are registered to our school brain and therefore dumped at the end every semester.

Yet there are problems such as wars, ethnic conflicts, etc... that were mentioned in this video that require our knowledge and wisdom and our strengths all working together to solve, but we don't know how to do that because the way we are "educated" has nothing to do with being educated for life on a grander scale.

It is also written, "Where there is no vision, My people cast off restraint." I say the video above pretty much showed that we are lacking vision and therefore do seem like we are aimlessly wandering around in universities with open laptops, closed textbooks and no one to say who's the wiser.

It was also mentioned in the video that some thought technology could save us, or was supposed to save us. Only One saves, and He isn't a mac or pc.


It's Not About the Technology

Hello Mrs. Hines. I am a student from Dr. Strange's EDM 310 class, here at the University of South Alabama. I agree with you on a lot of points. There must be a change in our mindsets to be effective teachers. A lot of teachers shy away from all the new technology, and a lot of teachers rely too much on technology. Believe me, I've been in a classroom that if it wasn't for the power point or videos, I can honestly say that the teacher had no idea what even they were supposed to be talking about. There needs to be a proper balance in this classroom. Teachers need to have teachable spirits, hence, not ashamed of being the student themselves and continuing their own journey of learning where in turn they can teach others.

Is It Okay To Be A Technologically Illiterate Teacher?

Hello. I'm a student in Dr. Strange's EDM 310 class. I do agree with you that there should be some minimal requirement of basic tech skills for all teachers to have.

I also think how tech literate they must be depends on what age they teach as well as which subject matter they teach though. I'm sure a teacher teaching an a.p. physics class at a high school would know much more about certain computer programs and tools for the sake of their class versus a first grade teacher who is still trying to teach their kids how to write neatly and read.

I'm not saying teachers should limit their own knowledge regarding technology based on their classes, that's absurd. But if a teacher only knows the basics with a couple extra tools in their arsenal for their particular class, I don't think they should be looked down upon.








This chart certainly has a lot of mind-boggling numbers. And I believe it furthers support the fact that we are living in exponential times. And as stated in an earlier blogpost, it is written, "...the time of the end. Many will rush here and there as knowledge increases." If people aren't rushing here and there physically, we are certainly rushing to a lot of place electronically. Even if it would take my physical body 14 hours on an airplane to get to Spain, it would take one my text messages or facebook posts a matter of seconds to reach someone in Spain. Our bodies don't have to be in any one physical place to pass on the knowledge from our brains or the wisdom from our hearts.