"You're Just My Type"
Gilmore Chapter #6

Yes, this chapter is a great chapter to allow me to vent! I like technology. I think it makes life and jobs a lot easier, to a certain extent. However, I definitely get frustrated with technology almost every single day. Gilmore had brought up some good points in his arguement for pro technology. How technology is used in classrooms is almost a bitter sweet experience. It provides a student multiple ways of learning, and is easier on the teacher to make different teaching methods easier and more fun for the students. Sometimes, however, technology fails and becomes more frustrating then easier and conducive to learning.
My mom is a 4th grade english teacher at Olivet Middle School. She has been teaching for 31 years and have one teacher of the year multiple times. BUT, the woman knows nothing about technology! She is great with students, classroom management, ect... but when it comes to technology she is lost. She tries to learn more about it, because it is her job requirement. She repeatedly keeps telling me that the more experience with technology I get, will be better, because education is headed down a technological advanced classrooms. EW!
I and the schools have to remember not every student has access to a computer at home or have a way to make it to the library to use a computer. As a teacher I have to realize the frustration that comes with assigning computer assignments. One more comment on having students send me thier papers via email... OH NO! I hate recieving emails, and I hate sending them. Unless the student is absent I think it is an aweful idea to send a paper through email... That is something I will not change... you loose the individual interaction and connection if your cirriculum is based around technology!