The speed with which we are running behind new technololgies to experiment with them worries me sometimes. We are not even sure whether we are effective in our teaching and learning using technologies that are as old as the blackboard (and I mean here the good old chalky business not the one with capital B). I don’t want to say that the blackboard is the right technology but …
Are educators just followers of fashion and technologies, are teachers also not guides? As long as we haven’t fully mastered the language of the new media, we should remain careful.
m vanbuel
November 30, 2007 at 11:20 am
A very good point! We cannot forget that it’s a difference between learning (everyday, all the time learning) and sought after learning – which, I suppose, is the kind of learning we want in our learning institutions.
Jonas @ NSHU
November 30, 2007 at 1:06 pm
The educational sector is indeed “running behind”, but not in a progressive way. Technologies as old as e-mail have yet to reach many classrooms.