Alan November Podcast

In class today we watch a podcast of Alan November where he talks about how schools and teachers are taking the technology out of the classroom because they are afraid. Within the discussion in class we talked about how teachers and schools and banning this and banning that in an attempt to maintain control over the learning of the students. Alan November talks about exactly what I think is the solution: Teachers need to stay on top of the emerging technology. Join Facebook, join Myspace, buy an ipod, get a cell phone. Why ban all these technologies instead of embracing them? Use them. They are not going anywhere, in fact there are more and more of them all day. Moore's law in regards to microchips is that they will double every year, imagine that for a second. DOUBLE. That means all the technology we have today will be double come next year. Why would we as educators want to limit this? I personally think it is mainly that teachers did not have to change as rapidly before and now are not willing to change any more than they want. These teachers want to be the dictators, when in reality it is the students who are the dictators.

PS...Allan if you are reading this I would reward your son, just make sure he understands why.