Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Issues in Technology and Education
Important technology issues in elementary physical education (K-5) include integration of all lessons, planning, grading, and curriculum evening presentations. Keeping pace with so many advances in technology and then integrating those ideas into my daily lessons is what our new superintendent is asking each and every one of us to do. This will be a challenge for me. Just keeping informed of technology and what’s available is a busy job for an educator. Also, finding time to investigate what other p.e. teachers are doing to integrate technology into the gym.
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I agree with you, Joan. time is really a challenging part of implementing technology into your lessons. It's kind of ironic - technology should be a time-saver, and might ultimately be, however, to get to that point takes time.
I agree Joan. It does take time to implement new technology. I know that, atleast for me, it takes doing something new a few times before I'm comfortable with it. A one time in-service doesn't cut it. Giving us more time probably won't happen though.The community already thinks teachers have a lot of time.
Time is definitely an issue when beginning to implement new technology. It takes time to learn the newest or latest technology, plus developing ideas or ways to implement it into your own lessons. Administrators need to realize in order to best encourage implementation with staff they need to provide us more time to practice and to collaborate with other colleagues to find the most effective methods for implementation. Technology can be great in any classroom...but we must be patient and willing to take the time to learn how to use it.
Doesn't it seem as though the more time teachers ask for, the less time they end up getting for planning and preparation. Unfortunately, it seems that this is going in a negative direction. Schools are expecting that new teachers will already come in with the latest technology skills (except I remember taking only one teaching with technology class in college, and it was an elective). There is too much finger pointing going between the administration and the teachers. Joan, you should write up a proposal to ask for more training (and be paid for it). It could work.
Joan, I completely understand where you are coming from! This new superintendant of ours is really into technology, and that puts a lot of pressure on us as educators to not only implement the use of technology with our students, but to also be trained to use all of this technology! And I dont know how you have found it, but it seems like the time and the training go to the clasroom teachers first and the specialists are left to figure things our for ourselves! At least that is how it has been in the art department! We definately need more time and more training in order to live up to the expectations of our superintendant!
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