Sunday, October 17, 2010

The future and what technology and education have to do with it

      As we all can look around our local classroom, coffee shop, bookstore, typical college student’s apartment, or even a football game, and see that technology is taking over. I might even go as far as to say that technology IS the future. Saying this is why is it so very important that we, as teachers, are able to use technology effectively and teach our students how to learn these skills as well. Without knowledge about technology, they will be lost in our future world and even the world we live in today. As U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan tells us the the U.S. Department of Education "called for America’s colleges of education to dramatically change how they prepare the next generation of teachers so that they are ready to prepare their future students for success in college and careers" (2009). Although the advances of technology and the uses are not disadvantages to us in any way, it is still becoming more powerful and overruling with every new discovery which is why we need to able to use and teach using technology effectively. Today, in our typical college classrooms, we use technology for communication with our teachers, classmates, and college annoucements. We even depend on computers to use to type our papers or printers to print out our study materials and without this we could not survive in a college class today. So what will future classes in ten years have to depend on? Preparation is only necessary in the world of advancements we live in today, but hopefully, in the end, it will still be to our benefit.

http://www.uet.edu.pk/Conferences/icosst2009/index.html

U. S. Department of Education (2009). "U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Says Colleges of Education Must Improve for Reforms to Succeed." Retrieved from http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2009/10/10222009a.html

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