A VISION OF STUDENTS TODAY-

This movie is very correct about the college experience. I have never understood how or why textbooks

for class are so expensive for class and the teacher NEVER uses them or only uses a couple of chapters.

This very aggravating because at the end of the semester you do get to sell your books back, but you don't get

the full price back, you get less than half usually. As a college student it is very important multi-task and

be very time efficient with your days. Teachers say that for every hour you are in class, you should be

doing two hours of work outside of class. Most college students have to work as well so there is a lot of stuff

college student has to think about when planning their day. It is very scary to see that over 1 billion people

make less than $1 a day. This scares me when thinking about finishing college. The fact that the average

college student leaves college with $20,000 of debt also contributes to the fear of graduating college. Overall,

this is a good film although I thought that when switching to the different facts around the room, the

director could have gone a little bit slower.

IT'S NOT ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY-

This article is very true about saying that we do not need to have all the newest technology for

children to be able to learn the best. We just need teacher who actually care about the students and who will

use the technology as just a tool in the classroom to get the lesson across better. Some lessons might need

a visual or a certain movie clip to help the children to better understand the subject matter, but as a necessity

it is not. Just because it is the 21rst century it does not mean that we need to throw out all of our old teaching methods for some technology. The most important thing is to

make sure that the students are learning the material and understanding the material as well. We can use technology

as a tool to enhance the lesson but we never have to only rely on the use of technology. Basically the teacher of a class

needs to always be aware of what is changing in technology just to maybe apply something to their lesson to further get the

lesson across.

IS IT OK TO BE A TECHNOLOGY ILLITERATE TEACHER?

Technology is very important to learn because our world is constantly changing and more and more times

technology is replacing many of our everyday tools we use. When you do not keep up with what is constantly

changing then it makes it even harder to learn anything. Many times when you finally learn a certain program

or piece of technology, a new version would come out to replace the one you just learned and the new item

more often then not has many new features. This applies to teachers because teachers need to constantly relate

their lessons to the students and the tool that keeps the students engaged is usually technology. Almost every

job that each student will have or experience in their lives will 9 times out of 10 involve some sort of technology.

It is also important for the staff of the school to know what type of technology is out there and how to access it and

use it because even tho they are learning for their classroom, they are also learning for themselves!

GARY'S SOCIAL MEDIA COUNT-

This constant counter of many things that are changing and how technology is a resource that we need to

constantly keep up with. All of these things that are being counted, are prime examples of how fast the world

is changing and how we constantly need to be aware of what is new in the technology world and how to use that

technology to reach the students that we will be teaching in the future. Technology is a huge key in the world

and it will require many of the students to be able to know how to use it and all of the benefits that it has.