As CEP 812 comes to a close, we were asked to look at ourselves as passionate and curious individuals and how technology is changing the face of our society. Thomas L. Freidman wrote an article where he detailed how the technologies and social media platforms we have today are changing the game of education; these new advances are chaining the type of individuals we need to run a successful and thriving society. He says that it “will be vital to have more of the “right” education than less, that you will need to develop skills that are complementary to technology rather than ones that can be easily replaced by it and that we need everyone to be innovating new products and services to employ the people who are being liberated from routine work by automation and software.”
In order to achieve this, it is necessary to have teachers that are passionate about their work and curious enough to take on the tasks that keep them moving towards this goal. Learning the inner workings of these technologies so that we can appropriately teach our students to use them takes a teacher who is committed to their own learning, a teacher who asks the right questions, a teacher who looks to ideas and suggestions founded in research that can push their students to a new level. Success like this comes from teachers who put in more than they’re asked without thinking twice, from teachers who stay in their positions and continue to love their students through the ups and downs of this technology integration; it comes from teachers who are concerned about the state of our society’s future and do whatever it takes to make sure it’s headed in the right direction. It takes teachers like the one I believe myself to be.
References:
Friedman, T.. (Jan 30, 2013). It’s P.Q. and C.Q. as Much as I.Q. In The New York Times. Retrieved Dec 11, 2013, fromhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/opinion/friedman-its-pq-and-cq-as-much-as-iq.html.
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