Chapter 9: Rethinking................

What does it mean?  This question is huge and may not ever be answered fully but as teachers, we can try our best to find what it means for our students.  Technology is always changing and affecting our daily lives.  Education sadly, is not always changing.  We teach newer topics and yes we try to introduce some new technologies, but we are yet to be setting our students up for THEIR future, not our pasts.  With this being said, we need to figure out what all the technology and the changing world means.  There is no right answer per say, but I can assure you that there seems to be more of a current "wrong" answer.  We need to introduce the appropriate technologies in our classrooms to allow our students to have it at their disposal and learn how to use the technology to better their education.  This does not mean stray away from traditional schooling.  I believe that you still need to have discussions to teach students the imporatance of face-to-face communication and I even can say that you need to lecture at times to make sure your students can hold their attention for a set period of time and retain information.  I say this because our college schooling is set up to lecture us and challenge us to listen and soak up information the best we can.  In saying that, we need to introduce multiple technologies and ideas in our classrooms to help our students learn how they learn best.  I believe in finding an appropriate balance in my classroom to help guide my students down their educational paths.  I want them to figure out how they learn best but teach them all forms of learning.