Role of the Teacher
The role of the teacher in today’s classroom is changing rapidly due to the availability and advances in technology and standards that require teachers to use modern technology in their everyday classrooms. Teachers not only have to keep up to date with the latest technology/technological advances, but they must implement them in the classroom, and teach their students the skills they need to use the technology in a way that is most effective based on their needs. According to Clive Thompson in his book Smarter Than You Think (2011), teachers have realized that the point of implementing technology in the classroom, “isn’t to simply replicate more expensively what they’re already doing quite well with paper, pencils, and books. It’s to do new things that they currently can’t do. It’s to teach kids by using the peculiar abilities of networked devices—like public thinking, new literacies, and the powerful insights that come from not just using, but programming, the machine (pg. 181)”.
Without technology, students wouldn’t be able to seek help from additional sources such as educational websites, their teachers, or collaborate with peers. The quality of their learning may be inhibited because they are simply not able to share their ideas, and figure out how to solve problems for themselves. It makes me wonder how people were ever able to solve problems and how much time they wasted because they didn’t have the technology to help them.
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