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Education, educators and students are all changing at pace faster than ever, and that is due to technology. Students are part of a digital generation with new expectations and approaches to learning. They understand information from text, images, video and conversation. The day of using just the textbook with one author’s opinion is long gone. Students expect to be engaged and entertained at all times.
This leaves educators with no choice but to embrace technology. We must be able to use technology proficiently and be able to pass the skills to our students. If we do not they will be at a disadvantage once they enter the business world.
Another point in the text that caught my eye was financial issues. The cost of technology is far more than just the price of purchasing the equipment. Upgrades, support and maintenance are all additional cost. Districts have to explore the real cost of technology to ensure that they can sustain it. There is funding but sometimes this is just not enough. This truly is the business side to education.
The book offers alternatives such as using Linux as a platform and open source applications for free.
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Linux is great with websites. That is what I use for my website hosting. It comes with cPanel and has many great open source tools as part of Fantastico such as Moodle, WordPress, vBulletin and more. Open source really has made the Internet so much better in my mind as someone with a website.
You are right about the business side to education being the financial picture.
I think one of the biggest challenges in education is assiting other educators. There will be many other teachers who work with us once we are employed who might be severly apprehensive towards applying technology to their courses. It is important that we invest our time in these co-workers in order to form a stronger more capable team of educators within our future schools.
I think it is interesting to use the phrase “no choice” when it comes to using technologies in the classroom. I feel most teachers have that feeling, that it is a hassle to incorprate technology in the classroom. In reality, it make take a little time getting used to; but technology can make life so much easier and can make a class more fun for the students!
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