Vicki Davis, a teacher and IT Administrator, writes this article alerting educators to make time for technology. Davis lists five essentials that she believes will have students better educated to participate in the real world. She refutes that students should be displaying their work on the internet rather than schools clearing it off computers each semester. Students should also be the inventors behind the apps we download rather than just the consumers of them. Her argument boils down to students having more credibility and worth than what they are given in the classroom and need to be treated as such.
Shockingly, this article gave me one good reason to stop hating on Twitter in the classroom. I am fond of the idea that students can communicate with authors via Twitter, as this would further enhance their pursuit of literary learning. I am still leery about becoming too dependent upon technology in the classroom, but I admit that this article found balance between the two worlds. Essential #4 is labeled "a strategic disconnector" and describes how students need to be taught things such as turning off their notifications while they study or learning how to put down the cell phone when having actual conversations. With technology tearing through our world at the rate it is, I suppose the least we, as educators, can do is utilize and take advantage of it.
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