Mar 24 2008
Why the race is on to get teachers to use more technology.
Emerging Technologies This is a podcast for your enjoyment. You will be able to note its application to the topic of technology and education in our schools.
1. Our American society is saturated with it.
2. More reading is taking place on the internet than that via books as evidenced by the decrease of written publications in the western hemisphere.
3. The Chinese are now the greatest number of English speakers in the world. Go figure – their total population eclipses all other nations. It is the Chinese who are driving our need to compete in the global education race. They as a people, are reading via the internet. Talk about a literary explosion.
4. Our children need to be exposed to this new learning tool because they are no longer as a group entranced by our teaching methodologies of yesteryear. They are the new “nano byte” learners.
5. The work place incorporated these technological skills seven years ago; schools are just beginning to catch up.
6. Technology unleashes the creative animal is all of us. Intermarrying technology and learning is a natural continuum. Did you know that creativity is now being listed as one the leading school related skills that need to be emphasized just like numeracy, literacy etc.
